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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2002
Robert S. Schreiber, Pal Alto, CA (US);
Shail Aditya Gupta, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Vinod K. Kathail, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Santosh George Abraham, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Bantwal Ramakrishna Rau, Los Altos, CA (US);
Robert S. Schreiber, Pal Alto, CA (US);
Shail Aditya Gupta, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Vinod K. Kathail, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Santosh George Abraham, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Bantwal Ramakrishna Rau, Los Altos, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method of designing a pipeline comprises the steps of: accepting a task procedure expressed in a standard programming language, the task procedure including a sequence of computational steps; accepting a performance requirement of the pipeline; and automatically creating a hardware description of the pipeline, the pipeline comprising a plurality of interconnected processor stages, each of the processor stages for performing a respective one of the computational steps, the pipeline having characteristics consistent with the performance requirement of the pipeline.