A synthesis environment for designing DSP systems

The authors describe a high-level synthesis tool that addresses the broad range of throughput requirements inherent in all DSP (digital signal processor) systems. The primary role of this system, called FACE (flexible architecture compilation environment), is to provide a set of algorithms that adequately support architecturally specific hardware synthesis for a class of DSP applications. They first identify the shortcomings of Parsifal, an earlier synthesis system, and discuss the requirements for FACE. They examine briefly the architectural issues. They then describe FACE's synthesis algorithms.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>