We introduce a new approach to take into account the memory architecture and the memory mapping in High-Level Synthesis for data intensive applications. We formalize the memory mapping as a set of constraints for the synthesis, and defined a Memory Constraint Graph and an accessibility criterion to be used in the scheduling step. We use a memory mapping file to include those memory constraints in our HLS tool GAUT. It is possible, with the help of GAUT, to explore a wide range of solutions, and to reach a good tradeoff between time, power-consumption, and area.
Citation:
Gwenol? Corre, Eric Senn, Nathalie Julien, Eric Martin, "A Memory Aware High Level Synthesis Tool," isvlsi, pp.279, IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI: Emerging Trends in VLSI Systems Design (ISVLSI'04), 2004