SPAID: an architectural synthesis tool for DSP custom applications

Abstract

SPAID is a design tool that maps digital-signal-processing (DSP) algorithms into multibus VLSI architectures. Explicit algorithm and VLSI performance constraints on throughput, latency, silicon area and power dissipation are obeyed. SPAID synthesizes a multibus multioperator (MBMO) data path with the minimum number of buses, operators and registers that satisfies the performance constaints. Design examples show that SPAID's performance compare favorably with existing synthesis systems for high-throughput distributed architectures.<>