Object-oriented domain specific compilers for programming FPGA's

Authors:
Oskar Mencer;Marco Platzner;Martin Morf;Michael J. Flynn
Affiliations:
Computing Sciences Research Center, Lucent, Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ;Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland;Computer systems Lab., Stanford, CA;-
Venue:
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems - Special issue on low power electronics and design
Year:
2001

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Abstract

Simplifying the programming models is paramount to the success of reconfigurable computing with field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). This paper presents a methodology to combine true object-oriented design of the compiler/CAD tool with an object-oriented hardware design methodology in C++. The resulting system provides all the benefits of object-oriented design to the compiler/CAD tool designer and to the hardware designer/programmer. The two examples for domain-specific compilers presented are BSAT and StReAm. Each domain-specific compiler is targeted at a very specific application domain, such as applications that accelerate Boolean satisfiability problems with BSAT, and applications which lend themselves for implementation as a stream architecture with StReAm. The key benefit of the presented domain specific compilers is a reduction of design time by orders of magnitude while keeping the optimal performance of hand-designed circuits.