In this chapter a number of techniques for dealing with high level synthesis tasks are discussed. Unfortunately, the interaction between many of these tasks means that they need to be integrated vertically and solved in a limited design-specific way. Alternatively the tasks can be organised functionally as described above and run in an iterative fashion. This leads to the toolbox concept. Tool operations can be sequenced depending on the type of design. Sequencing can be performed manually or by an expert system.

Inspec keywords: high level synthesis; application specific integrated circuits; expert systems

Other keywords: high level synthesis; toolbox concept; digital ASIC; expert system

Subjects: Digital circuit design, modelling and testing