FPGA design flows for improved productivity, performance, and energy

数字技术在现代产品中发挥着关键作用，从消费品到广播和医疗设备，再到工业控制。 在使用数字技术开发产品时，有两种方法很流行：软件和硬件。在软件方法中，设计包括微处理器，并且所需的独特功能通过编写在处理器上执行的软件程序来实现。这种方法在实践中很常用，因为它很简单，软件人员也很容易找到;他们的数量大约是硬件开发人员的10倍。但处理器有两个大缺点：它们消耗大量能源，并且与硬件相比不提供高性能。在这个项目中，我们打算改善这些问题，使硬件设计的好处提供给软件开发人员。

Digital technology plays a key role in modern products, from consumer items to broadcast and medical equipment, to industrial control. When developing a product using digital technology, two approaches are prevalent: software and hardware. In the software approach the design includes a microprocessor, and the unique features needed are implemented by writing software programs that are executed on the processor. This approach is commonly-used in practice, because it is straightforward and software personnel are widely available; they outnumber hardware developers by about 10x. But processors have two big drawbacks: they use a lot of energy, and do not provide high performance in comparison to hardware. In this project we intend to ameliorate these issues, by making the benefits of hardware design available to software developers.