This letter presents a novel framework in high-level synthesis where hardware modules synthesized from functions in a given ANSI-C program can call the other software functions in the program. This enables high-level synthesis from C programs that contains calls to hard-to-synthesize functions, such as dynamic memory management, I/O request, or very large and complex functions. A single-thread ...

The goal of our project is the development of a program synthesis system to facilitate the development of high-performance parallel programs for a class of computations encountered in computational chemistry and computational physics. These computations are expressible as a set of tensor contractions and arise in electronic structure calculations. This paper provides an overview of a planned sy...

This paper presents a new methodology based on evolutionary multi-objective optimization (EMO) to synthesize multiple complex modules on reprogrammable devices. It starts from a behavioral description written in a common high-level language (for instance C) to automatically produce the register-transfer level (RTL) design in a hardware description language (e.g. Verilog). Since all high-level s...

The development and use of a high level synthesis system can be made more convenient when intermediate data can be investigated graphically. Using this graphical representation the designer/user can easily influence the design process or is able to ’tune’ his tools. Mostly a high level synthesis system and a graphical framework are two separate platforms. This article describes how both platfor...

OF THE DISSERTATION High-Level Synthesis for Nanoscale Integrated Circuits by Bin Liu Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science University of California, Los Angeles, 2012 Professor Jason Cong, Chair Increased design complexity and time-to-market pressure in the integrated circuit (IC) industry call for a raised level of abstraction at which designs are specified. High-level synthesis is the pro...

In a high level synthesis environment there is a strong need for flexible module generators. For the generation of regular structures efficient dedicated module generators can be built. This paper describes the structure of a ’block– multiplier’, which features a wide range of area–time tradeoffs maintaining efficiency. The structure makes it possible to implement a fully serial or a fully para...

We present a way to make environmental recordings controllable again by the use of continuous annotations of the high-level semantic parameter one wishes to control, e.g. wind strength or crowd excitation level. A partial annotation can be propagated to cover the entire recording via cross-modal analysis between gesture and sound by canonical time warping (CTW). The annotations serve as a descr...