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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2002
Stephen G. Edwards, Woodbine, MD (US);
Donald J. Davis, Ellicott City, MD (US);
Jonathan C. Harris, Ellicott City, MD (US);
James E. Jensen, Ellicott City, MD (US);
Andreas B. Kollegger, Baltimore, MD (US);
Ian D. Miller, Charlotte, NC (US);
Stephen G. Edwards, Woodbine, MD (US);
Donald J. Davis, Ellicott City, MD (US);
Jonathan C. Harris, Ellicott City, MD (US);
James E. Jensen, Ellicott City, MD (US);
Andreas B. Kollegger, Baltimore, MD (US);
Ian D. Miller, Charlotte, NC (US);
Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of processing a program written in a general purpose programming language to determine a hardware representation of the program can include generating a language independent model of the program written in a general purpose programming language () and identifying a loop construct within the language independent model (). A determination can be made as to whether the loop construct is bounded (). If so, a loop processing technique can be selected for unrolling the loop construct according to stored user preferences). The loop construct can be replicated in the language independent model as specified by the selected loop processing technique ().