Bambu: A modular framework for the high level synthesis of memory-intensive applications

This paper presents bambu, a modular framework for research on high-level synthesis currently under development at Politecnico di Milano. It can accept most of C constructs without requiring any three-state for their implementations by exploiting a novel and efficient memory architecture. It also al...

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Main Authors: Pilato, Christian, Ferrandi, Fabrizio
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Benchmark testing
Clocks
Hardware
Optimization
Resource management
Software
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Summary:This paper presents bambu, a modular framework for research on high-level synthesis currently under development at Politecnico di Milano. It can accept most of C constructs without requiring any three-state for their implementations by exploiting a novel and efficient memory architecture. It also allows the integration of floating-point units and thus it can deal with a wide range of data types. Finally, it allows to easily customize the synthesis flow (e.g., transformation passes, constraints, options, synthesis scripts) through an XML file and it automatically generates test-benches and validates the results against the corresponding software execution, supporting both ASIC and FPGA technologies.
ISSN:1946-147X
1946-1488
DOI:10.1109/FPL.2013.6645550