文档介绍：Algorithm / Hardware Co-Design using MATLAB
Robert K. Anderson
Xilinx DSP Technical Marketing
High-level ESL design methodologies now enable the simultaneous development of both
the DSP algorithms and hardware architectures resulting in systems with a much higher
level of optimization. Traditionally, FPGAs have been designed by engineers with
limited knowledge of the application domain and similarly, algorithms have been
developed by researchers without insight into FPGA design. This significant gap results
in inefficiencies in both the final hardware and in the algorithmic system response that
can be addressed when both the algorithmic methods and the hardware architectures are
designed in a unified manner. Performing this type of algorithm and hardware co-design
provides a new degree of freedom that allows the algorithmic methods to more closely
match the capabilities and capacity of the targeted hardware platform.
MATLAB is an abstract language where the algorithmic specification does not
necessarily imply any particular hardware implementation. As such, it is used extensively
by researchers for algorithm development. These abstractions make it an obvious choice
for architectural co-exploration bined with an ESL design methodology provide
the foundation for architectural / hardware co-design.
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