TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sharp,Richard
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Higher-Level Hardware Synthesis
T2  - Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
SN  - 9783540246572
AV  - QA75.5-76.95 
U1  - 004 23
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Berlin, Heidelberg
PB  - Springer Berlin Heidelberg
KW  - Computer science
KW  - Computer hardware
KW  - Software engineering
KW  - Logic design
KW  - Computer Science
KW  - Computer Hardware
KW  - Processor Architectures
KW  - Software Engineering
KW  - Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters
KW  - Logics and Meanings of Programs
N1  - 1. Introduction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Related Work -- 3. The SAFL Language -- 4. Soft Scheduling -- 5. High-Level Synthesis of SAFL -- 6. Analysis and Optimisation of Intermediate Code -- 7. Dealing with I/O -- 8. Combining Behaviour and Structure -- 9. Transformation of SAFL Specifications -- 10. Case Study -- 11. Conclusions and Further Work
N2  - In the mid 1960s, when a single chip contained an average of 50 transistors, Gordon Moore observed that integrated circuits were doubling in complexity every year. In an in?uential article published by Electronics Magazine in 1965, Moore predicted that this trend would continue for the next 10 years. Despite being criticized for its “unrealistic optimism,” Moore’s prediction has remained valid for far longer than even he imagined: today, chips built using state-- the-art techniques typically contain several million transistors. The advances in fabrication technology that have supported Moore’s law for four decades have fuelled the computer revolution. However,this exponential increase in transistor density poses new design challenges to engineers and computer scientists alike. New techniques for managing complexity must be developed if circuits are to take full advantage of the vast numbers of transistors available. In this monograph we investigate both (i) the design of high-level languages for hardware description, and (ii) techniques involved in translating these hi- level languages to silicon. We propose SAFL, a ?rst-order functional language designedspeci?callyforbehavioralhardwaredescription,anddescribetheimp- mentation of its associated silicon compiler. We show that the high-level pr- erties of SAFL allow one to exploit program analyses and optimizations that are not employed in existing synthesis systems. Furthermore, since SAFL fully abstracts the low-leveldetails of the implementation technology, we show how it can be compiled to a range of di?erent design styles including fully synchronous design and globally asynchronous locally synchronous (GALS) circuits
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b95732
ER  -