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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2010
Anand Pandurangan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Pius NG, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Siva Selvaraj, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Satish Padmanabhan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Anand Pandurangan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Pius Ng, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Siva Selvaraj, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Satish Padmanabhan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
Systems and methods are disclosed to automatically determine an optimal number format representation for a model or code to be implemented in a custom integrated circuit (IC) by determining a ratio of dynamic range to static range in the model or code, and selecting a floating point or a fixed point number representation based on the ratio; determining the optimal number representation format based on a cost function that includes hardware area and power cost associated with a predetermined bit precision arithmetic; automatically generating a processor architecture customized to the optimal number representation format; and synthesizing the generated processor architecture into a computer readable description of the custom integrated circuit for semiconductor fabrication.