Dataflow driven hardware description method and its circuit synthesis based on operators
Shanshan Yong, Xin’an Wang, Jing Lan, Chenghao Wu, Xiao-Bo Long, Zheng yu Xie, Teng Wang · 2012
To simplify the design & verification complexity and speed up design, a data flow driven hardware description method and its circuit synthesis based on operators are proposed. The behavior of each data is described precisely using a high level abstract language which is quite similar to ANSI C. The compilation tool ReCom compiles data flow driven description into circuit based on operators. There are four kinds of operators to implement circuit, and each operator has the attribution of self-synchronization by using handshake protocol to exchange data. A FFT design is given. Compared with the design using current design methodology, its speed is faster but with a loss of area.