The FSM network model for behavioral synthesis of control-dominated machines

  • Authors:
  • Wayne Wolf

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University

  • Venue:
  • DAC '90 Proceedings of the 27th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 1991

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Abstract

Since many ASICs are dominated by control functions, control-dominated architectures form an important domain for behavioral synthesis. We propose modeling control-dominated architectures during behavioral synthesis as networks of communicating FSMs—the model more directly reflects behavior and allows more accurate cost estimation, especially for control, than do traditional data-directed representations for control-dominated machines. We show how to implement a number of important compiler optimizations on the FSM network model.