NDLI: Avoiding game over: Bringing design to the next level

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Shacham, O. Galal, S. Sankaranarayanan, S. Wachs, M. Brunhaver, J. Vassiliev, A. Horowitz, M. Danowitz, A. Qadeer, W. Richardson, S.
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	Technology scaling has created a catch-22: technology now can do almost anything we want, but the NRE design costs are so high, that almost no one can afford to use it. Our current situation is reminiscent of the 1980's, when only a few companies could afford to produce custom silicon. Synthesis and placement and routing tools changed this, by providing modular tools with well defined interfaces that codified designer knowledge about the physical design of chips. Now we need a new set of tools that can codify designer knowledge about how to construct software, hardware, and validation to again enable application designers to produce chips. Researchers are developing methodologies that allow users to create hardware constructors, or generators. These include Genesis 2, which extends SystemVerilog and enables the designer to encode hierarchical system construction procedu-rally. To demonstrate some of the capabilities that these languages and tools provide, we describe FPGen, a complete floating point generator written in Genesis 2, that also generates the needed validation collateral and hints for the backend processes.
Starting Page	623
Ending Page	629
File Size	955511
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450311991
ISSN	0738100X
e-ISBN	9781450311991
DOI	10.1145/2228360.2228472
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-06-03
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM)
Subject Keyword	Layout Hardware Software Generators Hardware design languages IP networks Companies Floating Point HDL SystemVerilog Generator Genesis 2 Optimization Power
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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