2006 First International Multi-Symposiums on Computer and Computational Sciences
A New Computing Model for C-Like Hardware Description Languages
Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
June 20-June 24
ISBN: 0-7695-2581-4
Traditional C-like hardware description languages are based on single dimensional computing model. They describe only behavior of designs, while cost information is leaved to be digging out by a synthesizer at late stage of design process. However, cost information is needed in high level synthesis for making trade-off among different aspects of cost to achieve global optimized design. To solve the problem, we extended traditional computing model to multi-dimensional so cost information can be included in the language, and integrated it to a popular C++ variant hardware description language - SystemC. The result language describes both behavior and cost of designs so trade-off can be made at relative high level during synthesis process and early stage of design process, thus make it easy to optimize designs for different target applications.
Citation:
Jimin Wang, Lingdi Ping, Jiebing Wang, Kang Sun, "A New Computing Model for C-Like Hardware Description Languages," imsccs, vol. 2, pp.249-256, 2006 First International Multi-Symposiums on Computer and Computational Sciences, 2006