Representing conditional branches for high-level synthesis applications

Abstract

The authors outline a new representation of behavioral specification for high-level synthesis applications. The main features of the representation are correct handling of conditional branches; the ability to tradeoff between control-select and data-select forms; keeping minimum necessary precedence relationships; correct representation of all conditional actions; and simplified mutual exclusion testing and correct determination of bit-widths and value transfers. The representation is simple and can be easily generated automatically.<>