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The 14th International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID '01)
High Level Synthesis Of Multi-Precision Data Flow Graphs
Bangalore, India
January 03-January 07
ISBN: 0-7695-0831-6
Vikas Agrawal, Indian Institute of Science
Anand Pande, Broadcom India Pvt. Ltd.
Mahesh M. Mehendale, Texas Instruments (I)Ltd.
A number of DSP algorithms involve linear transforms employing weighted sum computations, where the weights are fixed at design time. Add-shift implementation of such a computation results in a Data Flow Graph that has multiple precision variables and functional units. We explore the potential of precision sensitive approach for the high level synthesis of such multi-precision DFGs. We focus on fixed latency implementation of these DFGs. We present register allocation, functional unit binding and scheduling algorithms to exploit the multi-precision nature of such DFGs for area efficient implementation. The proposed approach is fairly generic and could be applied to multi-precision DFGs involving any type of functional units. Significant improvements of upto 27% have been obtained over the conventional high-level synthesis approach.
Citation:
Vikas Agrawal, Anand Pande, Mahesh M. Mehendale, "High Level Synthesis Of Multi-Precision Data Flow Graphs," vlsid, pp.411, The 14th International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID '01), 2001
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