System for architecture and resource specification and methods to compile the specification onto hardware
US7376939B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 7, 2002 |
| Grant date | May 20, 2008 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 30, 2024 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F30/30
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Electronic design automation tool specifies an architecture at a system level and its component (which include intellectual property (IP) cores like embedded processors, arithmetic logic units (ALU), multipliers, dividers, embedded memory element, programmable logic cells, etc.); specifies IP-cores and their interface; and understands IP-cores and functions via their interface. Further, techniques are provided for modeling the timing behavior of a function or functional block without drawing a timing diagram; understanding the interface behavior of a function block which captures the timing waveforms; specifying virtual functions which are built using basic functional units and their timing behavior; parsing and creating an internal graphical form for analyzing a specification for compilation; matching the components in the architecture specification and their instantiation to map the computations in the input graph produced from an application; and mapping the specification onto the target's components.
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