High-Level Synthesis Book

Research on high-level synthesis started over twenty years ago, but lower-level tools were not available to seriously support the insertion of high-level synthesis into the mainstream design methodology. Since then, substantial progress has been made in formulating and understanding the basic concepts in high-level synthesis. Although many open problems remain, high-level synthesis has matured.
High-Level Synthesis: Introduction to Chip and System Design presents a summary of the basic concepts and results and defines the remaining open problems. This is the first textbook on high-level synthesis and includes the basic concepts, the main algorithms used in high-level synthesis and a discussion of the requirements and essential issues for high-level synthesis systems and environments. A reference text like this will allow the high-level synthesis community to grow and prosper in the future.

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This textbook includes basic concepts, the main algorithms used in high-level synthesis, and a discussion of the requirements and essential issues for systems and environments. Chapters cover architectural models in synthesis, quality measures, design description languages, design representation and transformations, partitioning, scheduling, allocation, and design methodology. Exercises are included at the end of each chapter. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)