High-Level Synthesis Now Spans the Datapath-Control Spectrum

When we talk to prospective high-level synthesis (HLS) customers, one of the slides we show is a pie chart that breaks down the types of production designs (that we are aware of) for which customers have used C-to-Silicon Compiler. The current snapshot looks like this: Then we overlay this breakdown: The "primarily datapath" designs have varying amounts of control logic in them, the "primarily control" designs have some datapath content, and the "mixed" designs have...(read more)