Improving Performance and Reducing Power with Hardware Acceleration: Static Timing Analysis Based Transformations of Combinational Logic in a High Level ASIC Synthesis Flow - Brossura

Ihrig, Colin J.

 
9783639106909: Improving Performance and Reducing Power with Hardware Acceleration: Static Timing Analysis Based Transformations of Combinational Logic in a High Level ASIC Synthesis Flow
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ISBN 10: 3639106903 ISBN 13: 9783639106909
Casa editrice: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2008

Sinossi

Modern electronic design automation tools can be used to apply a variety of transformations to hardware blocks in an effort to achieve performance and power savings. A number of such transformations require tools with intimate knowledge of the design's timing characteristics. Static timing analysis estimates the worst-case timing behavior of hardware data flow graphs. The static timing analyzer described in this book operates on data flow graphs which are generated as intermediate representations within a C to VHDL hardware acceleration compiler. Two additional tools were then developed which utilize the results of the static timing analysis. An automated pipelining tool was developed to increase the throughput of large blocks of combinational logic generated by the compiler. Another tool was designed to mitigate power consumption resulting from combinational glitching. By inserting special signal buffers with preselected propagation delays, known as delay elements, functional units can be kept inactive until their inputs stabilize. This book explores these tools as well as the various design tradeoffs resulting from their use.

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L'autore

Colin J. Ihrig received his B.S. and M.S. in 2005 and 2008 and is currently pursing his Ph.D. in CoE from the Univ. of Pittsburgh. Alex K. Jones received his B.S. in Physics in 1998 from William and Mary and his M.S. and Ph.D. in ECE from Northwestern Univ. in 2000 and 2002. He is currently a faculty member at the Univ. of Pittsburgh.

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Editore
VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
Data di pubblicazione
2008
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
3639106903
ISBN 13 
9783639106909
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
92
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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