March 2009
Intermediate to advanced
972 pages
32h
English
System designers conceptualize designs at an abstract functional level where outputs are typically described as (algorithmic or transfer) functions of the system inputs. This design abstraction level, called electronic system level (ESL), enables ease of design capture and early design space exploration of multiple design implementation alternatives. ESL designs can be refined into lower levels of abstraction through a number of steps that gradually map abstract functions into register-transfer level (RTL) components. An enabling technology for ESL design is high-level synthesis (HLS), also known as behavioral synthesis. A high-level synthesis tool bridges ...
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