This paper presents the design of a Videophone CoderDecoder Motion Estimator using two High-Level Synthesis tools. Indeed, the combination of a Control Flow Dominated part (comple...
Elisabeth Berrebi, Polen Kission, Serge Vernalde, ...
Emerging embedded system applications in multimedia and image processing are characterized by complex control flow consisting of deeply nested conditionals and loops. We present a...
Sumit Gupta, Nikil Dutt, Rajesh Gupta, Alexandru N...
The use of nanometer technologies is making it increasingly important to consider transient characteristics of a circuit’s power dissipation (e.g., peak power, and power gradien...
Temperature is becoming a first rate design criterion in ASICs due to its negative impact on leakage power, reliability, performance, and packaging cost. Incorporating awareness o...
Rajarshi Mukherjee, Seda Ogrenci Memik, Gokhan Mem...
Conventional high-level synthesis algorithms usually employ multi-cycle operators to reduce the cycle length in order to improve the circuit performance. These operators need seve...