High-level specification and efficient implementation of pipelined circuits

  • Authors:
  • Maria-Cristina Marinescu;Martin Rinard

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratory for Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA;Laboratory for Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2001 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

This paper describes a novel approach to high-level synthesis of complex pipelined circuits, including pipelined circuits with feedback. This approach combines a high-level, modular specification language with an efficient implementation. In our system, the designer specifies the circuit as a set of independent modules connected by conceptually unbounded queues. Our synthesis algorithm automatically transforms this modular, asynchronous specification into a tightly coupled, fully synchronous implementation in synthesizable Verilog.