Hardware C - A Language for Hardware Design

Abstract

High-level synthesis is the transformation from a behavioral level specification of hardware to a register transfer level description, which may be mapped to a VLSI implementation. The success of high-level synthesis systems is heavily dependent on how effectively the behavioral language captures the ideas of the designer in a simple and understandable way. This paper describes Hardware C, a hardware description language that is based on the C programming language, extended with notions of concurrent processes, message passing, explicit instantiation of procedures, and templates. The language is used by the HERCULES High-Level Synthesis System. Keyword and Phrases: High-level synthesis, Hardware description languages.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA207317

Entities

People

  • David C. Ku
  • Giovanni De Micheli

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • C Programming Language
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Electrical Engineering
  • High Level Languages
  • Iterations
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Notation
  • Programming Languages
  • Semantics
  • Simulation Languages
  • Simulations
  • Spectra
  • Template Patterns

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.