High-Level VLSI Synthesis

Camposano, Raul, Wolf, Wayne

  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 1991-05-31
  • 售價: $8,570
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$8,142
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 390
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 0792391594
  • ISBN-13: 9780792391593
  • 相關分類: VLSI
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The time has come for high-level synthesis. When research into synthesizing hardware from abstract, program-like de- scriptions started in the early 1970' s, there was no automated path from the register- transfer design produced by high-level synthesis to a complete hardware imple- mentation. As a result, it was very difficult to measure the effectiveness of high- level synthesis methods; it was also hard to justify to users the need to automate architecture design when low-level design had to be completed manually. Today's more mature CAD techniques help close the gap between an automat- ically synthesized design and a manufacturable design. Market pressures encour- age designers to make use of any and all automated tools. Layout synthesis, logic synthesis, and specialized datapath generators make it feasible to quickly imple- ment a register-transfer design in silicon, leaving designers more time to consider architectural improvements. As IC design becomes more automated, customers are increasing their demands; today's leading edge designers using logic synthesis systems are training themselves to be tomorrow's consumers of high-level synthe- sis systems. The need for very fast turnaround, a competitive fabrication market WhlCh makes small-quantity ASIC manufacturing possible, and the ever growing co: n- plexity of the systems being designed, all make higher-level design automaton inevitable.