Synthesising controllers from real-time specifications

  • Authors:
  • Henning Dierks

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Oldenburg, Department of Computer Science, P.O. Box 2503, D-26111 Oldenburg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ISSS '97 Proceedings of the 10th international symposium on System synthesis
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

This paper presents a novel source-level dynamic analysis methodology and tool for High-Level Synthesis (HLS). It not only for the first time enables HLS to offer source-level design debugging on the `synthesized' RTL designs, but also allows the designer to analyze their dynamic characteristics, such as resource utilization, power consumption, etc., at the algorithmic (source) level. This technology has been proven in the industry as the critical element for successfully designing a microcontroller with 300+ instructions with Matisse, an interactive HLS system. Additionally, we demonstrate the use of this technology for architectural power optimization.