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
- 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

