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A design flow dedicated to multi-mode architectures for DSP applications

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A design flow dedicated to multi-mode architectures for DSP applications
This paper addresses the design of multi-mode architectures for digital signal processing applications. We present a dedicated design flow and its associated high-level synthesis tool, named GAUT. Given a unified description of a set of time-wise mutually exclusive tasks and their associated throughput constraints, a single RTL hardware architecture optimized in area is generated. In order to reduce the register, steering logic (multiplexers) and controller (decoding logic) complexities, we propose a joint-scheduling algorithm which maximizes the similarities between control steps and specific binding approaches for both functional units and storage elements which maximize the similarities between the datapaths. We show through a set of test cases that our approach offers significant area saving relative to the state-of-the-art.
Cyrille Chavet, Caaliph Andriamisaina, Philippe Co
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Type Conference
Year 2007
Where ICCAD
Authors Cyrille Chavet, Caaliph Andriamisaina, Philippe Coussy, Emmanuel Casseau, Emmanuel Juin, Pascal Urard, Eric Martin
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