Synthesis Of Application Specific Programmable Processors

Synthesis of Application Specific Programmable Processors poses numerous new tasks on behavioral synthesis tools. We address some of them including application bundling. Application Bundling is a synthesis task where n control-data flow graphs are bundled into at most m groups, so that each application belongs to at least one group and throughput constraints for all applications are satisfied. We have shown how a variety of application specific constraints such as manufacturing cost reduction and production risk reduction can be targeted during the synthesis process. The effectiveness of our approach is demonstrated on a number of real examples.