Sehwa: a software package for synthesis of pipelines from behavioral specifications

A set of techniques for the synthesis of pipelined data paths is described, and Sehwa, a program that performs such synthesis, is presented. The task includes the generation of data paths from a data-flow graph along with a clocking scheme that overlaps execution of multiple tasks. Some design examp...

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Published inIEEE transactions on computer-aided design of integrated circuits and systems Vol. 7; no. 3; pp. 356 - 370
Main Authors Park, N., Parker, A.C.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, NY IEEE 01.03.1988
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Subjects
Applied sciences
Circuit synthesis
Clocks
Computers, microcomputers
Costs
Data flow computing
Design methodology
Electronics
Exact sciences and technology
Flow graphs
Hardware
Pipeline processing
Resource management
Software packages
Timing
Computer
System architecture
Pipeline network
Interconnection
Algorithm
Data flow
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Summary:A set of techniques for the synthesis of pipelined data paths is described, and Sehwa, a program that performs such synthesis, is presented. The task includes the generation of data paths from a data-flow graph along with a clocking scheme that overlaps execution of multiple tasks. Some design examples are given. Sehwa can find the minimum-cost design, the highest performance design, and other designs between these two in the design space. Sehwa is written in Franz Lisp and executes within minutes, for problems of practical size, on a VAX 11/750.< >
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ISSN:0278-0070
1937-4151
DOI:10.1109/43.3169