EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 685128, 13 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/685128
Research Article

A Case Study: Quantitative Evaluation of C-Based High-Level Synthesis Systems

Omar Hammami,1 Zhoukun Wang,1 Virginie Fresse,2 and Dominique Houzet3

 1EECS Department, National Higher School of Advanced Techniques (ENSTA), 32 Boulevard Victor, 75739 Paris, France
2Hubert Curien Laboratoire (UMR CNRS 5516), Université Jean Monnet, 18 Rue Benoit Lauras, 42000 Saint Etienne, France
3Laboratoire Grenoble Images Paroles Signal Automatique (GIPSA Laboratoire) (UMR CNRS 5216), Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG), 46 Avenue Félix Viallet, 38031 Grenoble, France
Received 5 October 2007; Revised 25 February 2008; Accepted 14 May 2008

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Abstract

Embedded systems require a high-level abstraction modeling to tackle their complexity and improve design productivity. C-based design techniques and methodologies have been proposed for this purpose. Various IPs with diverse complexities and functionalities can be selected to build a system. However, area and energy issues are paramount in this selection process. Implementation hints should therefore be available at the highest possible level of abstraction. Some C-based tools have been proposed in this order through either true synthesis or estimation. In this paper, we conduct through a case study an evaluation of C-based design of embedded systems and point out the impact of behavioral synthesis on embedded systems multiobjective high-level partitioning.