NDLI: ReDeEm RTL: a software tool for customizing soft cells for embedded applications

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Surendra, G. Nandy, S.K. Sathya, P.
Copyright Year	2001
Description	Author affiliation: Supercomput. Educ. & Res. Center, Indian Inst. of Sci., Bangalore, India (Surendra, G.)
Abstract	Significant reduction in design time for system on chip (SoC) applications can be achieved through IP reuse. Such a design methodology encourages designers to develop IP blocks that add to a library of soft cells in anticipation of the market trends and meet stringent time to market constraints. However for application specific ICs all the hardware in each IP block may not be used. This gives rise to an opportunity to reduce the number of hardware components in such blocks depending on the application and customizing the IP or soft cell for the application context. In this paper we present a method to automatically detect and remove logic in RTL blocks (soft cells) that are not used by the embedded application thereby reducing area and power. A prototype tool ReDeEm RTL (ReDesign in Embedded RTL, read as Redeem RTL) has been implemented to remove all redundant logic and its performance although dependent on the type of application, shows that sizable reduction in logic can be obtained.
Sponsorship	Broadcom India
Starting Page	85
Ending Page	90
File Size	479841
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769508316
ISSN	10639667
DOI	10.1109/ICVD.2001.902644
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2001-01-07
Publisher Place	India
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Software tools Application software Logic design Automatic logic units Clocks System-on-a-chip Design methodology Time to market Hardware Consumer electronics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Hardware and Architecture

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