Xilinx, Inc.

Northwestern University

Anshuman Nayak

Alok Choudhary

Prithviraj Banerjee

Malay Haldar

Vikram Saxena

Electronic design automation tool specifies an architecture at a system level and its component (which include intellectual property (IP) cores like embedded processors, arithmetic logic units (ALU), multipliers, dividers, embedded memory element, programmable logic cells, etc.); specifies IP-cores and their interface; and understands IP-cores and functions via their interface. Further, techniques are provided for modeling the timing behavior of a function or functional block without drawing a timing diagram; understanding the interface behavior of a function block which captures the timing waveforms; specifying virtual functions which are built using basic functional units and their timing behavior; parsing and creating an internal graphical form for analyzing a specification for compilation; matching the components in the architecture specification and their instantiation to map the computations in the input graph produced from an application; and mapping the specification onto the target's components.

System for architecture and resource specification and methods to compile the specification onto hardware

Digital circuit is synthesized from algorithm described in the MATLAB programming language. A MATLAB program is compiled into RTL-VHDL, which is synthesizable using system-specific tools to develop ASIC or FPGA configuration. Intermediate transformations and optimizations are performed to obtain highly optimized description in RTL-VHDL or RTL Verilog of given MATLAB program. Optimizations include levelization, scalarization, pipelining, type-shape analysis, memory optimizations, precision analysis and scheduling.

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Schaumburg, IL, United States of America

Anshuman Nayak