Virtual Roundtable: User Perspectives

Trambadia: In the past few years we have used HLS tools for designing SoCs and different types of IP blocks. These include AMBA [Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture] bus IP blocks like AXI [Advanced eXtensible Interface], AHB [Advanced High-performance Bus], APB [Advanced Peripheral Bus], AHB-Multilayer, and AMBA cross-bus bridges for AXI, AHB, and APB. Similarly, HLS tools have also been used for cryptographic IP blocks like ECC, RSA, and Viterbi. A few image-processing IP blocks and computational IP, like CORDIC, were other candidates that were developed using HLS tools. For bus IP modules, it is necessary to have reconfigurability so that the user can easily create a bus with a different number of master and slave interfaces and different data bus widths, which is very difficult to do in RTL. In such a scenario, we find using HLS tools very convenient as we can easily regenerate High-Level Synthesis