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  • Bit-Length Optimization Method for High-Level Synthesis Based on Non-linear Programming Technique

    Nobuhiro DOI  Takashi HORIYAMA  Masaki NAKANISHI  Shinji KIMURA  

     
    PAPER-System Level Design

      Vol:
    E89-A No:12
      Page(s):
    3427-3434

    High-level synthesis is a novel method to generate a RT-level hardware description automatically from a high-level language such as C, and is used at recent digital circuit design. Floating-point to fixed-point conversion with bit-length optimization is one of the key issues for the area and speed optimization in high-level synthesis. However, the conversion task is a rather tedious work for designers. This paper introduces automatic bit-length optimization method on floating-point to fixed-point conversion for high-level synthesis. The method estimates computational errors statistically, and formalizes an optimization problem as a non-linear problem. The application of NLP technique improves the balancing between computational accuracy and total hardware cost. Various constraints such as unit sharing, maximum bit-length of function units can be modeled easily, too. Experimental result shows that our method is fast compared with typical one, and reduces the hardware area.