Jongsok Choi

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: The framework allows a software engineer to specify parallelism to an HLS tool using methodologies they are likely to be familiar with and provides automated synthesis for commonly occurring synchronization constructs within the Pthreads/OpenMP library: mutual exclusion (mutex) and barriers.