• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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• v.33A no.2
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• pp.196-204
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• 1996

This paper presents a new scheduling algorithm, which is the most improtant subtask in the high level synthesis. The proposed algorithm performs scheduling in consideration of resource sharing concept based on characteristics of conditionsla bransches in the intermediate data structure. CDFG (control data flow graph) generated by a VHDL analyzer. This algorithm constructs a conditon graph based on time frame of each operation using both the ASAP and the ALAP scheduling algorithm. The conditon priority is obtained from the condition graph constructed from each conditional brance. The determined condition priority implies the sequential order of transforming the CDFG with conditonal branches into the CDFG without conditional branches. To minimize resource cost, the CDFG with conditional branches are transformed into the CDFG without conditonal brancehs according to the condition priority. Considering the data dependency, the hardware constraints, and the data execution time constraints, each operation in the transformed CDFG is assigned ot control steps. Such assigning of unscheduled operations into contorl steps implies the performance of the scheduling in the consecutive movement of operations. The effectiveness of this algorithm is hsown by the experiment for the benchmark circuits.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.17 no.11
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• pp.1247-1263
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• 1992

VHDL, which is the IEEE standard HDL, has gradually become popular in the area of hardware design, the VHDL Environment developed in this study consists of VHDL Support Environment and VHDL Using Environment. The VHDL Support Environment is composed of Analyzer, CDFG Generator for synthesis, Synthesizer, and VHDL Generator converting CDFG to VHDL. The VHDL Using Environment provides users with more convenient access to the VHDL Support Environment. The VHDL Using Environment allows accessing the tools in the VHDL Support Environment through Graphical User Interface. VHDL program can be automaticaly generated from schematics in the VHDL Using Environment.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.7 no.2 s.13
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• pp.166-171
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose a minimal power data path allocation algorithm for low power circuit design. The proposed algorithm minimizes switching activity for input variables in scheduled CDFG. Allocations are further divided into the tasks of register allocation and module allocation. The register allocation algorithm execute that it eliminate spurious switching activity in functional unit and minimize the numbers of multiplexer. Also, resource allocation method selects a sequence of operations for a module such that the switching activity is reduced. Therefore, the algorithm executes to minimize the switching activity of input values, sequence of operations and number of multiplexer. Experimental results using benchmarks show that power is reduction effect from 13% to 17% power consumption, when compared with the Genesis-lp high-level synthesis system.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.39-44
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• 2005

Scheduling for digital system synthesis is assigning each operation in a control/data flow graph(CDFG) to a specific control step without violating precedence relation. It is one of the most important tasks due to its direct influence on the performance of the hardware synthesized. In this paper, we propose a resource-constrained scheduling algorithm. Our algorithm first analyzes the given CDFG to determine the number of functional units of each type, then assigns each operation to a control step while satisfying the constraints. It also tries to improve the solution iteratively by adjusting the number of functional units using the results collected from the previous scheduling. Experiments were performed to test the performance of the proposed algorithm, and results are presented

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.212-215
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• 2002

In this paper, we present an intermediate representation CDFG(Control Data Flow Graph) and an efficient scheduling technique for low power circuit design. The proposed CDFG represents control flow, data dependency and such constraints as resource constraints and timing constraints. In the scheduling technique, the constraints are substituted by subgraphs, and then the number of subgraphs is minimized by using the inclusion and overlap relation efficiently. Also, iterative rescheduling process are performed in a minimum bound estimation, starting with the as soon as possible as scheduling result, so as to reduce the power consumption in low power design. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm has been proven by the experiment with the benchmark examples.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.44-48
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• 1998

In this paper proposed Component Synthesis Algorithm(CSA) for mapping described HDL to RT component of given library. CSA transform I/O variables of HDL and relation of operators to control/data flow graph(CDFG) that consists of graph, reduce the size of graph, compute the cost, the bound, and the method that use compatibility graph(CG), and then mapping to component. Component synthesis used branch-and-bound algorithm. The result that synthesis using CSA algorithm was proved that this result and the cost of the manual were indentified.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.185-197
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• 2001

Recently, the design method by VHDL coding and synthesis has been used widely. As the integration ratio increases, the amount design by VHDL at a time also increases so many coding errors occur in a design. Thus, lots of time and effort is dissipated to detect those coding errors. This paper proposed a method to verify the coding errors in VHDL behavioral-level designs. As the methodology, we chose the method to detect the coding error by applying the generated set of verifying patterns and comparing the responses from the error-free case(gold unit) and the real design. Thus, we proposed an algorithm to generate the verifying pattern set for the coding errors. Verifying pattern generation is peformed for each code and the coding errors are classified as two kind: condition errors and assignment errors. To generate the patterns, VHDL design is first converted into the corresponding CDFG(Control & Data Flow Graph) and the necessary information is extracted by searching the paths in CDFG. Path searching method consists of forward searching and backward searching from the site where it is assumed that coding error occurred. The proposed algorithm was implemented with C-language. We have applied the proposed algorithm to several example VHDL behavioral-level designs. From the results, all the patterns for all the considered coding errors in each design could be generated and all the coding errors were detectable. For the time to generate the verifying patterns, all the considered designed took less than 1 ［sec］ of CPU time in Pentium-II 400MHz environments. Consequently, the verification method proposed in this paper is expected to reduce the time and effort to verify the VHDL behavioral-level designs very much.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.95-99
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• 2008

This paper proposes a new minimal resource high-level synthesis algorithm for low power design automation. The proposed algorithm executes an efficient approach to minimize the power consumption of the functional units in a circuit during the high level synthesis. In this paper, we visit all control steps one by one to reduce the switching activity in CDFG. The register sharing algorithm determines the minimum register after the life time analysis of all variable. According to property of input signal for functional unit, the proposed method visits all control step one by one and determines the resource allocation with minimal power consumption at each control step in a greedy fashion. The effect of the proposed algorithm has been proved through various filter benchmark to adopt a new scheduling and allocation algorithm considering the low rover.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.31-31
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• 2001

최근 VHDL 코딩 및 합성방법에 의한 설계가 널리 사용되고 있다. 집적도가 증가함에 따라 VHDL에 의한 설계 또한 그 분량이 증가하여 많은 코딩오류가 발생하고 있으며, 이를 검색하는데 많은 시간과 노력이 소요되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 VHDL 행위-레벨 설계를 대상으로 코딩오류를 검색하는 방법을 제안하였다. 그 방법에 있어서는 검색패턴을 생성하여 오류가 없는 응답과 설계의 응답을 비교함으로써 설계오류를 찾는 방법을 택하였다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 코딩오류를 검색하기 위한 검색패턴을 생성하는 알고리듬을 제안하였다. 검색패턴 생성은 각 코드에 대해 수행하며, 할당오류와 조건오류를 구분하여 수행하였다. 패턴생성을 위해 VHDL 코드를 CDFG로 변환하여 사용하며, CDFG상의 경로를 탐색하여 패턴생성에 필요한 정보를 추출한다. 경로탐색은 오류가 발생하였다고 가정한 지점으로부터 역방향 탐색과 정방향 탐색을 수행하여 패턴을 생성한다. 제안한 알고리듬은 C-언어로 구현하였다. 펜티엄-Ⅱ 400MHz의 환경에서 여러 가지 VHDL 행위-레벨 설계를 대상으로 제안한 알고리듬을 적용하였다. 그 결과, 고려한 모든 설계의 모든 코드에 대한 검색패턴을 생성할 수 있었으며, 가정한 모든 오류를 검색할 수 있었다. 검색패턴 생성에 소요되는 시간은 고려한 모든 대상 설계에서 1초 미만의 CPU 시간을 보여 속도면에서도 매우 우수함을 나타내었다. 따라서 본 논문에서 제안한 검색방법은 VHDL에 의한 설계에서 설계검증에 필요한 시간과 노력을 상당히 감소시킬 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.10 no.2 s.19
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• pp.103-108
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• 2006

This paper proposed a low power resource allocation algorithm for the minimum switching activity of operators in high level synthesis. In this paper, the proposed method finds switching activity in circuit each functional unit exchange for binary sequence length and value bit are logic one value. To use the switching activity was found the allocation with minimal power consumption, the proposed method visits all control steps one by one and determines the allocation with minimal power consumption at each control step. As the existing method, the execution time can be fast according to use the number of operator and maximal control step. And it is the reduction effect from 8.5% to 9.3%.