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Part of the book series: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science (SECS, volume 216)
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The emergence of independent silicon foundries, the reduced price of silicon real estate and the shortened processing turn-around time bring silicon technology within reach of system houses. Even for low volumes, digital systems on application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) are becoming an economically meaningful alternative for traditional boards with analogue and digital commodity chips.
ASICs cover the application region where inefficiencies inherent to general-purpose components cannot be tolerated. However, full-custom handcrafted ASIC design is often not affordable in this competitive market. Long design times, a high development cost for alow production volume, the lack of silicon designers and the lack of suited design facilities are inherent difficulties to manual full-custom chip design.
To overcome these drawbacks, complex systems have to be integrated in ASICs much faster and without losing too much efficiency in silicon area and operation speed compared to handcrafted chips. The gap between system design and silicon design can only be bridged by new design (CAD). The idea of a silicon compiler, translating a behavioural system specification directly into silicon, was born from the awareness that the ability to fabricate chips is indeed outrunning the ability to design them. At this moment, CAD is one order of magnitude behind schedule. Conceptual CAD is the keyword to mastering the design complexity in ASIC design and the topic of this book.
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Book Title: High-Level Synthesis for Real-Time Digital Signal Processing
Authors: Jan Vanhoof, Karl Rompaey, Ivo Bolsens, Gert Goossens, Hugo Man
Series Title: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2222-2
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1993
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-9313-9Published: 31 January 1993
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-5134-2Published: 07 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-2222-2Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0893-3405
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 302
Topics: Circuits and Systems, Electrical Engineering, Signal, Image and Speech Processing, Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design