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During co-synthesis, we need to evaluate the hardware being designed. High-

level synthesis was developed to raise the level of abstraction for hardware

designers, but it is also useful as an estimation tool for co-synthesis. This section

surveys some high-level synthesis algorithms to provide a better understanding

of the costs of hardware and fast algorithms for area and performance estima-

tion. We also look at techniques specifically developed to estimate the costs of

accelerators in heterogeneous multiprocessors.

7.3.1 High-Level Synthesis

goals of high-

level synthesis

High-level synthesis starts from a behavioral descript ...