Title
Synthesis and Optimization of Combinational Interface Circuits
Abstract
We describe an algorithm for interface synthesis and optimization for embedded system components such as microprocessors, memory ASIC, and network subsystems. The algorithm accepts the timing characteristics of two chips as input, and generates a combinational interface circuitry to implement communication between them. The algorithm consists of two parts. In the first part, we determine the direct pin-to-pin connections employing a 0-1 ILP formulation to minimize wiring area and dynamic power consumption in the resulting interface circuit. In the second part, we use a novel encoding method to synthesize connections between chips which require additional gates in the interface circuit. Experiments show that our algorithm is very effective in practice.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1023/A:1015413306258
VLSI Signal Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
interface synthesis,logic circuit,embedded systems
Logic gate,Computer science,Parallel computing,Interface circuits,Real-time computing,Application-specific integrated circuit,Dynamic demand,Encoding (memory)
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
31
3
0922-5773
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
14
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ki-seok Chung118918.76
Rajesh K. Gupta24570390.84
Taewhan Kim31087113.31
C. L. Liu46191970.79