Component selection for high-performance pipelines

  • Authors:
  • Smita Bakshi;Daniel D. Gajski

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

The use of a realistic component library with multiple implementations of operators results in cost-efficient designs; slow components can then be used on noncritical paths and the more expensive components on only the critical paths. This paper presents a cost-optimized algorithm for selecting components and pipelining a data-flow graph, given such a library, and throughput and latency constraints. Experimental results on several large examples indicate the importance of component selection as a parameter in design exploration.