High-level Synthesis, 5 cr

Core content

• Fundamentals of high-level synthesis
• Scheduling of IO and memories
• Sequential and combinational hardware
• Memory architecture
• Hierarchical design
• Example designs

Complementary knowledge

• General coding style, bit-accurate data types, pipelining, unrolling
• Unconditional/conditional IO
• Shift registers, multiplexors, shifters, accumulators, adder trees, lookup tables
• Memory organization, caching
• Sharing arrays, sharing control variables, reconvergence, channels, arbitration, feedback
• FIR filter, FFT examples