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Abstract | ||
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Most high-level synthesis tools for asynchronous circuits take descriptions in concurrent hardware description languages and generate networks of macromodules or handshake components. In this paper, we propose a peephole optimizer for these networks. Our peephole optimizer first deduces an equivalent blackbox behavior for the network using Dill's trace-theoretic parallel composition operator. It then applies a new procedure called burst-mode reduction to obtain burst-mode machines from the deduced behavior. In a significant number of examples, our optimizer achieves gate-count improvements by a factor of five, and speed (cycle-time) improvements by a factor of two. Burst-mode reduction can be applied to any macromodule network that is delay insensitive as well as deterministic. A significant number of asynchronous circuits, especially those generated by asynchronous high-level synthesis tools, fall into this class, thus making our procedure widely applicable. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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1994 | 10.1109/92.748198 | IEEE Trans. VLSI Syst. |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
burst-mode reduction,asynchronous macromodule networks,burst-mode machine,gate-count improvements,dill's trace-theoretic parallel composition operator,high-level synthesis tool,concurrent hardware description languages,significant number,hardware description languages,asynchronous circuit,circuit optimisation,high-level synthesis tools,delays,deduced behavior,vlsi,integrated circuit design,macromodule network,asynchronous high-level synthesis tool,asynchronous circuits,asynchronous macromodule network,equivalent blackbox behavior,burst-mode machines,high level synthesis,peephole optimizer,handshake components,peephole optimization,polarization,computer science,production,hardware description language,sequential circuits,network synthesis | Conference | 7 |
Issue | ISSN | ISBN |
1 | 1063-8210 | 0-8186-6565-3 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
10 | 0.93 | 17 |
Authors | ||
3 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Ganesh Gopalakrishnan | 1 | 1619 | 130.11 |
| Prabhakar Kudva | 2 | 438 | 56.96 |
| Erik Brunvand | 3 | 509 | 66.09 |