DSP for Embedded and Real-Time Systems

Chapter 8

High-level Design Tools for Complex DSP Applications

Yang Sun¹, Guohui Wang¹, Bei Yin¹, Joseph R. Cavallaro¹ and Tai Ly²

¹Rice University, ECE Department, Houston, TX

²National Instruments Corporation, Austin, TX

Chapter Outline

High-level synthesis design methodology

High-level design tools

Catapult C

PICO

System Generator

Case studies

LDPC decoder design example using PICO

Matrix multiplication design example using Catapult C

QR decomposition design example using System Generator

Conclusion

High-level synthesis design methodology

High level synthesis (HLS) [1], also known as behavioral synthesis and algorithmic synthesis, is a design process in which a high level, functional description of a design is automatically compiled into ...