High-Level VLSI Synthesis

The time has come for high—level synthesis. When research into synthesizing hardware from abstract, program—like descriptions 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 ...