Increasing Design Productivity through Core Reuse, Meta-data Encapsulation, and Synthesis

  • Authors:

  • Adam Arnesen;Kevin Ellsworth;Derrick Gibelyou;Travis Haroldsen;Jared Havican;Marc Padilla;Brent Nelson;Michael Rice;Michael Wirthlin

  • Affiliations:

  • -;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • FPL '10 Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This paper presents a novel IP core reuse strategy which reduces design time from days to hours for communication circuits such as digital radio receivers. This design productivity is obtained by leveraging a highly parameterized library of communication specific cores. These cores are described in IP-XACT XML with vendor extensions describing the timing behavior of their communication interfaces. A synthesis tool, called Ogre, was created that generates the communication interfaces between cores described in IP-XACT and synthesizes full designs from structural synchronous dataflow specifications. Design productivity improvements are demonstrated with several radio receiver designs.