NSF-ESPRIT Co-Operative Activity: High Level Synthesis Techniques for VLSI

Rabaey高级合成近年来取得了显著的进展。在实时信号处理领域，欧洲和美国已经提出了许多功能强大的合成环境。不幸的是，大多数现有工具只能跨越有限的应用程序领域或非常特定的体系结构风格。要在工业层面取得成功，综合方法的统一显然是必不可少的。这项研究的目标是通过将来自比利时鲁汶IMEC研究中心和加州大学伯克利分校的研究人员聚集在一起，促进数字信号处理领域的高级合成。我们的目标是交换综合技术和工具，试图形成一个统一的框架，解决全球体系结构领域的问题。与此同时，这种合作将导致培训在高级综合领域具有更广泛视野和专门知识范围的研究人员。

Rabaey High Level Synthesis has undergone remarkable progress in recent years. A number of powerful synthesis environments have been proposed in the area of real time signal processing, both in Europe and the United States. Unfortunately, most of the existing tools span only restricted application domains or very specific architectural styles. To be successful at an industrial level, a unification of the synthesis approaches is clearly essential. The goal of this research is to boost the field of high-level synthesis for digital signal processing by bringing together researchers from the IMEC Research Center at Leuven, Belgium and the University of California at Berkeley. The objectives are to exchange synthesis techniques and tools in an attempt to come to a unified framework, addressing the global architectural domain. At the same time, this cooperation will result in the training of researchers with a wider vision and scope of expertise in the field of high level synthesis.