High level synthesis in DSP ASIC optimization

In this paper Digital Signal Processing (DSP) system optimization with High Level Synthesis (HLS) environment is presented. To optimize a behavioural VHDL description, commercial SYNT and Synopsys synthesis tools are utilized. The optimization results are improved with a simple rule based preallocator. The coefficient optimization is done in Matlab to provide an efficient implementation of power-of-two and multiply-accumulate based FIR filters. The optimization results are presented using practical filter examples.<
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