High-Level Synthesis—What Expertise Is Needed for Micro-Architecture Tradeoffs?

My most recent blog post mentioned how utilizing new algorithms together with high-level synthesis can continue to drive innovation in hardware design by balancing power consumption with performance improvements. A great example of this is what Fujitsu Semiconductor was able to accomplish —they took advantage of the high abstraction level of SystemC to explore different micro-architecture tradeoffs. They found a micro-architecture that delivered 35% faster throughput along with a 51% power...(read more)