Behavioural Transformation to Improve Circuit Performance in High-Level Synthesis

Details Behavioural Transformation to Improve Circuit Performance in High-Level Synthesis Behavioural Transformation to Improve Circuit Performance in High-Level Synthesis

2007-10-25

arxiv.org/abs/0710.4801v1

Dans Design, Automation and Test in Europe - DATE'05, Munich : Allemagne (2005)

Computer Science

Hardware Architecture

Submitted on behalf of EDAA (http://www.edaa.com/)

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Early scheduling algorithms usually adjusted the clock cycle duration to the execution time of the slowest operation. This resulted in large slack times wasted in those cycles executing faster operations. To reduce the wasted times multi-cycle and chaining techniques have been employed. While these techniques have produced successful designs, its effectiveness is often limited due to the area increment that may derive from chaining, and the extra latencies that may derive from multicycling. In this paper we present an optimization method that solves the time-constrained scheduling problem by transforming behavioural specifications into new ones whose subsequent synthesis substantially improves circuit performance. Our proposal breaks up some of the specification operations, allowing their execution during several possibly unconsecutive cycles, and also the calculation of several data-dependent operation fragments in the same cycle. To do so, it takes into account the circuit latency and the execution time of every specification operation. The experimental results carried out show that circuits obtained from the optimized specification are on average 60% faster than those synthesized from the original specification, with only slight increments in the circuit area.

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