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AT&T’s Algorithms to Silicon Project uses McFarland’s BUD to partition and schedule the design, and to generate a preliminary binding of operations to functional units. This result is passed to a new version of Kowalski’s DAA, which uses it as a starting point for the final scheduling and data path synthesis. (The original DAA was Kowalski’s thesis work at Carnegie Mellon.) Finally, other tools perform module binding, controller design, floorplanning, and layout. See alsoCarnegie-Mellon’s (Second) CMU-DA System —McFarland and Kowalski used to be involved with that system.
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References — The Algorithms to Silicon Project
Michael C. McFarland and Thaddeus J. Kowalski, “Incorporating Bottom-Up Design into Hardware Synthesis”IEEE Trans.on CADpages 938–950, September 1990.
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References — DAA
Thaddeus J. Kowalski, “The VLSI Design Automation Assistant: An Architecture Compiler”, inSilicon CompilationDaniel D. Gajski (Editor), pages 122–152, Addison-Wesley, 1988.
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Walker, R.A., Camposano, R. (1991). AT&T’s Algorithms to Silicon Project. In: Walker, R.A., Camposano, R. (eds) A Survey of High-Level Synthesis Systems. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 135. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3968-1_2
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