Matisse: an architectural design tool for commodity ICs
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Design & Test of Computers
- Vol. 15 (2) , 22-33
- https://doi.org/10.1109/54.679205
Abstract
To accelerate industrial adoption of behavioral synthesis, we have developed Matisse, an architectural design tool that increases productivity without sacrificing area, performance, or power. Matisse's main difference from traditional behavioral synthesis tools is that it lets the designer play a key role. It allows the designer to make major decisions about styles, protocols, parallelism, delays, and partial or even complete architectures before the behavioral synthesis phase starts. Then it enables the designer to incorporate these decisions into the architecture using behavioral synthesis. Matisse supports the diverse design practices required for commodity IC design by giving the designer fine-grain control of behavioral synthesis tasks.Keywords
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