Facts

Highlights
  • Imports both SystemC and ANSI-C/C++ code
  • Performs automatic power optimizing high level synthesis
  • User controls power, area, and timing trade-offs
  • Outputs RTL model, test bench, simulation scripts, and synthesis constraints
  • Closes the gap between system and implementation models
  • Outputs CPF/UPF power constraints
  • Provides robust leakage modeling strategy
  • Implements technology-driven modeling for temperature and voltage variations

Benefits
  • Energy saving up to 75%
  • Up to 60x faster than lower-level methods
  • Greatly reduces development cost for low power applications
  • Quickly explore multiple architectures

Input Formats
  • SystemC 2.1 and 2.2
  • ANSI-C
Outputs
  • Power Optimized Verilog RTL code
  • Verilog RTL testbenches and test vectors
  • Micro Architecture Specification
  • Power dissipation of system components
  • Power dissipation and access statistics of memories
  • Script files for interfacing to RTL logic synthesis tools
  • CPF/UPF constraint formats