Controlling Hardware Synthesis with Aspects

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2012

Authors

João M. P. Cardoso (Author) FEUP; Carvalho, T (Author) Other; Coutinho, JGF (Author) Other; Diniz, PC (Author) Other; Petrov, Z (Author) Other; Luk, W (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

Title: 15th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design, DSD 2012, Cesme, Izmir, Turkey, September 5-8, 2012

Pages: 226-233

15th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design, DSD 2012

Cesme, Izmir, 5 September 2012 through 8 September 2012

Indexing

Scopus - 2 Citations

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-008-8W8

DOI: 10.1109/DSD.2012.33

Abstract (EN): The synthesis and mapping of applications to configurable embedded systems is a notoriously hard process. Tools have a wide range of parameters, which interact in very unpredictable ways, thus creating a large and complex design space. When exploring this space, designers must understand the interfaces to the various tools and apply, often manually, a sequence of tool-specific transformations making this an extremely cumbersome and error-prone process. This paper describes the use of aspect-oriented techniques for capturing synthesis strategies for tuning the performance of applications' kernels. We illustrate the use of this approach when designing application-specific architectures generated by a high-level synthesis tool. The results highlight the impact of the various strategies when targeting custom hardware and expose the difficulties in devising these strategies. © 2012 IEEE.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific