Spark: A Parallelizing Approach to the High-Level Synthesis of Digital Circuits (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

to High-Level Synthesis.- Survey of Previous Work.- Models and Representations.- Parallelizing High-Level Synthesis (PHLS).- Our Parallelizing High-Level Synthesis Methodology.- Pre-Synthesis Compiler Optimizations.- Compiler and Synthesis Transformations Employed During Scheduling.- Code Transformations and Scheduling.- Resource Binding and Control Synthesis.- SPARK: Implementation Scripts and Design Examples.- SPARK: Implementation, Usage and Synthesis Scripts.- Design Examples.- Case Study: Synthesis of an Instruction Length Decoder.- Future Directions.- Conclusions and Future Work.