High-Level Synthesis (HLS) enables the chip designer to effectively explore design alternatives as well as easing today's design reuse challenges. Exploring alternative hardware microarchitectures to determine the optimal power, performance, and area (PPA) of each solution when working at RTL is time-consuming and often impossible.
Further, what is optimal at one semiconductor technology may not be best for another. During this online seminar, we will show how to design for the lowest power hardware using HLS, by first optimizing the microarchitecture and then automatically maximizing clock gating efficiency.
We will show why HLS code is more adaptable to different microarchitectures, design reuse challenges, and geometries, and how using Catapult® HLS with PowerPro® technology, you are able to obtain more optimal low-power designs.
What you will learn:
Why many companies shift to HLS
HLS design process
Algorithm refinement
How to represent hardware architecture
Microarchitecture transformations
HLS optimizations
Analysis
How HLS addresses RTL reuse limitations
Who should attend:
RTL designers
Hardware architects
Managers interested in moving up to HLS
Agenda:
High-Level Synthesis Overview
What is different now?
Rapid Design Optimization using Catapult HLS 8
Design process
Functional reuse
Conclusion