Andrew Canis

TL;DR: A new open source high-level synthesis tool called LegUp that allows software techniques to be used for hardware design and produces hardware solutions of comparable quality to a commercial high- level synthesis tool.

TL;DR: This work uses a first-published methodology to compare one commercial and three academic tools on a common set of C benchmarks, aiming at performing an in-depth evaluation in terms of performance and the use of resources.

TL;DR: Results show that the tool produces hardware solutions of comparable quality to a commercial high-level synthesis tool, and results demonstrate the ability of the tool to explore the hardware/software codesign space by varying the amount of a program that runs in software versus hardware.

TL;DR: LegUp as discussed by the authors is a high-level synthesis tool that allows software techniques to be used for hardware design, which can synthesize most of the C language to hardware, including fixed-sized multi-dimensional arrays, structs, global variables and pointer arithmetic.

TL;DR: This work proposes a novel modulo scheduler based on an SDC formulation that includes a backtracking mechanism to properly handle multiple scheduling constraints and still achieve the minimum possible initiation interval and describes how to specifically apply associative expression transformations during modulo scheduling to restructure recurrences in complex loops to enable better scheduling.