Electronic Systems Design Seminar
http://www-cad.eecs.berkeley.edu/esd-seminar

A C-Based Parallelizing High-Level Synthesis Approach for Embedded Systems Sumit Gupta Center for Embedded Computer Systems University of California, Irvine Joint ESD/Chess Seminar Tuesday, October 14th, 2003, 4pm - 5pm 540A/B Cory Hall (D.O.P. Center Classroom)

Abstract

Growing size and complexity of microelectronic systems calls for design modeling, synthesis and validation techniques at higher levels of abstraction. In this talk, I will present our approach to the automated synthesis and optimization of digital circuits from behavioral descriptions. While such "high-level" synthesis approaches have been explored for years, what sets our work apart are the aggressive code parallelizing and code motion techniques that significantly improve the quality and controllability of the synthesis results. Specifically, I will focus on speculative code motion and innovative dynamic complier optimization techniques and their effect on design quality in terms of cycle time, circuit size and interconnect/control costs. These techniques have been implemented in a synthesis framework called SPARK. I will describe the architecture of SPARK and experimental results on a number of benchmarks and an example case study of the Instruction Length Decoder block from the Intel Pentium processor that demonstrates the utility of our approach.

Publications and binaries for SPARK can be downloaded from: http://www.cecs.uci.edu/~spark

Speaker

Sumit Gupta received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine in June 2003 and his B.Tech from IIT Delhi in 1995. He is currently a Post-Doctoral researcher with Professors Rajesh Gupta and Nikil Dutt at UC San Diego and Irvine. His research interests lie in the Codesign and synthesis of the Hardware and Software of Embedded Systems, Reconfigurable Computing, Low Power techniques for Mobile Devices and Parallelizing Compiler Techniques.