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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 23, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Koichi Nishida, Tenri, JP;
Andrew Kay, Oxford, GB;
Assignee:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/750 ; H03K 1/900 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/750 ; H03K 1/900 ;
Abstract
A hardware synthesis method for synthesizing a hardwired circuit from a behavioral description written in a language including execution control branch instructions such as an if-goto statement and a switch statement is provided. More specifically, hardware is synthesized by converting a behavioral description including an execution control branch instruction into a control flow graph (CFG) using a branch node and a merge node, converting the CFG into a control data flow graph (CDFG), performing scheduling according to the CDFG, and executing allocation according to the result of the scheduling.