Industrial experimentation of high-level synthesis
Polen Kission, Etienne Closse, L. Bergher, Ahmed Amine Jerraya · 2002
The use of the high-level synthesis system AMICAL for the architectural synthesis of the filter or subband synthesis described in the MPEG-AUDIO specification is described. AMICAL starts with a behavioral specification given in VHDL and generates a structural description that may feed existing silicon compilers acting at the logic and register transfer levels. AMICAL is an interactive tool, meaning that different solutions can be rapidly obtained by carrying out varied manual interventions. Several architectural solutions have been generated by means of the AMICAL system. A comparison table for the results obtained indicates that the final solution obtained by AMICAL respects the real time constraints imposed by the application.>