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Mapping a domain specific language to a platform FPGA

Authors: Chidamber Kulkarni, Gordon Brebner, Graham SchelleAuthors Info & Claims

DAC '04: Proceedings of the 41st annual Design Automation Conference

Pages 924 - 927

Published: 07 June 2004 Publication History

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A domain specific language (DSL) enables designers to rapidly specify and implement systems for a particular domain, yielding designs that are easy to understand, reason about, re-use and maintain. However, there is usually a significant overhead in the required infrastructure to map such a DSL on to a programmable logic device. In this paper, we present a mapping of an existing DSL for the networking domain on to a platform FPGA by embedding the DSL into an existing language infrastructure. In particular, we will show that, using few basic concepts, we are able to achieve a successful mapping of the DSL on to a platform FPGA and create a re-usable structure that also makes it easy to extend the DSL. Finally we will present some results of mapping the DSL on to a platform FPGA and comment on the resulting overhead.

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DAC '04: Proceedings of the 41st annual Design Automation Conference

June 2004

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ISBN:1581138288

DOI:10.1145/996566

General Chair:
Sharad Malik
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
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Limor Fix
Intel Semiconductors Ltd., Haifa, Israel
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Andrew B. Kahng
University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA

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