Title
A Framework for High Level Estimations of Signal Processing VLSI Implementations
Abstract
This paper deals with the presentation of a framework for the rapid prototyping of Digital Signal Processing applications. The BSS framework enables both synthesis of dedicated VLSI circuits and cost, performance estimation. The latter can be used at different accuracy levels and can help the designer in selecting a proper algorithm in order to improve the global performance of its implementation. The cost estimation takes into account both the processing unit, including operators, registers, interconnections, and memory units. The implemented estimation techniques are presented and include functional unit number bound calculation, probabilistic cost estimation of processing unit components, and memory unit area evaluation. We demonstrate, on a real application, that cost/signal processing quality trade-offs can be achieved while changing the type of algorithm and the number of filter taps for a given algorithm specification.
Year
DOI
Venue
2000
10.1023/A:1008191708726
Journal of Signal Processing Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Functional Unit,Digital Signal Processing,Pipeline Stage,Memory Unit,Memory Bank
Memory bank,Signal processing,Digital signal processing,Multidimensional signal processing,Computer science,High-level synthesis,Parallel computing,Real-time computing,Cost estimate,Probabilistic logic,Very-large-scale integration
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
25
3
0922-5773
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.45
22
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
J. Ph. Diguet1535.70
Daniel Chillet219326.12
O. Sentieys312615.65