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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals

A Bitwidth-Aware High-Level Synthesis Algorithm Using Operation Chainings for Tiled-DR Architectures

Kotaro TERADA, Masao YANAGISAWA, Nozomu TOGAWA

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As application hardware designs and implementations in a short term are required, high-level synthesis is more and more essential EDA technique nowadays. In deep-submicron era, interconnection delays are not negligible even in high-level synthesis thus distributed-register and -controller architectures (DR architectures) have been proposed in order to cope with this problem. It is also profitable to take data-bitwidth into account in high-level synthesis. In this paper, we propose a bitwidth-aware high-level synthesis algorithm using operation chainings targeting Tiled-DR architectures. Our proposed algorithm optimizes bitwidths of functional units and utilizes the vacant tiles by adding some extra functional units to realize effective operation chainings to generate high performance circuits without increasing the total area. Experimental results show that our proposed algorithm reduces the overall latency by up to 47% compared to the conventional approach without area overheads by eliminating unnecessary bitwidths and adding efficient extra FUs for Tiled-DR architectures.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E100-A No.12 pp.2911-2924
Publication Date
2017/12/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1337
DOI
10.1587/transfun.E100.A.2911
Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Special Section on VLSI Design and CAD Algorithms)
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Kotaro TERADA
  Waseda University
Masao YANAGISAWA
  Waseda University
Nozomu TOGAWA
  Waseda University

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