Publication IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer SciencesVol.E93-ANo.2pp.488-499 Publication Date: 2010/02/01 Online ISSN: 1745-1337 DOI: 10.1587/transfun.E93.A.488 Print ISSN: 0916-8508 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: VLSI Design Technology and CAD Keyword: behavioral synthesis, function-level partitioning, integer programming problem,
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Summary: A novel method to efficiently synthesize hardware from a large behavioral description in behavioral synthesis is proposed. For a program with functions executable in parallel, this proposed method determines a behavioral partitioning which simultaneously minimizes the overall datapath area and the complexity of the controller while maximizing performance of a synthesized circuit by fully exploiting function-level parallelism of a behavioral description. This method is formulated as an integer programming problem. Experimental results demonstrate that this method leads to a shift of the explorable design space so that superior solutions which could not be explored by earlier work are included, showing the effectiveness of our proposed method.
