Towards a High-Level Synthesis of Reconfigurable Bit-Serial Architectures

  • Authors:
  • Achim Rettberg;Florian Dittmann;Mauro Zanella;Thomas Lehmann

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • SBCCI '03 Proceedings of the 16th symposium on Integrated circuits and systems design
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This paper presents high-level synthesis methods for a fully reconfigurable self-timed synchronous bit-serial pipeline architecture. The idea is to distribute the central control unit. Local controls of the operators are realized through a one-hot implementation of the central control engine. Specialized routing components allow the reconfiguration of the implemented circuit with respect to rapid system prototyping. We describe several kinds of high-level synthesis approaches, especially the scheduling, which can be used for this type of architecture. This means we optimize specific characteristics, like loops, junctions and splitters, during the synthesis phase.