Overview
- Editors:
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Raul Camposano
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IBM, USA
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Wayne Wolf
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Princeton University, USA
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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- Dirk Lanneer, Stefaan Note, Francis Depuydt, Marc Pauwels, Francky Catthoor, Gert Goossens et al.
Pages 27-54
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- Albert E. Casavant, Ki Soo Hwang, Kristen N. McNall
Pages 55-78
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- R. Camposano, R. A. Bergamaschi, C. E. Haynes, M. Payer, S. M. Wu
Pages 79-104
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- William P. Birmingham, Anurag P. Gupta, Daniel P. Siewiorek
Pages 105-125
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- David C. Ku, Giovanni De Micheli
Pages 177-203
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- Yukihiro Nakamura, Kiyoshi Oguri, Akira Nagoya
Pages 205-229
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- Wayne Wolf, Andrés Takach, Tien-Chien Lee
Pages 231-254
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- Yu-Chin Hsu, Youn-Long Lin
Pages 283-306
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- D. E. Thomas, T. E. Fuhrman
Pages 307-329
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- Alice C. Parker, Kayhan Küçükçakar, Shiv Prakash, Jen-Pin Weng
Pages 331-354
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- Wolfgang Rosenstiel, Heinrich Krämer
Pages 355-382
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Back Matter
Pages 383-390
About this book
The time has come for high-level synthesis. When research into synthesizing hardware from abstract, program-like de scriptions started in the early 1970' s, there was no automated path from the register transfer design produced by high-level synthesis to a complete hardware imple mentation. As a result, it was very difficult to measure the effectiveness of high level synthesis methods; it was also hard to justify to users the need to automate architecture design when low-level design had to be completed manually. Today's more mature CAD techniques help close the gap between an automat ically synthesized design and a manufacturable design. Market pressures encour age designers to make use of any and all automated tools. Layout synthesis, logic synthesis, and specialized datapath generators make it feasible to quickly imple ment a register-transfer design in silicon,leaving designers more time to consider architectural improvements. As IC design becomes more automated, customers are increasing their demands; today's leading edge designers using logic synthesis systems are training themselves to be tomorrow's consumers of high-level synthe sis systems. The need for very fast turnaround, a competitive fabrication market WhlCh makes small-quantity ASIC manufacturing possible, and the ever growing co:n plexity of the systems being designed, all make higher-level design automaton inevitable.
Editors and Affiliations
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IBM, USA
Raul Camposano
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Princeton University, USA
Wayne Wolf
