Meta-Data and Interface Synthesis Techniques for Improving Design Productivity in Reconfigurable Computing

Utah State University

This paper demonstrates improvements in design productivity for reconfigurable computing which are accomplished through a novel IP reuse strategy. It presents a set of extensions to the IP-XACT XML specification that define the temporal behavior of cores and describes how these extensions are used in the Ogre synthesis system to simplify design complexity and thereby reduce design time. Design productivity improvement is demonstrated by reducing design time for software radio designs from days to hours.