Area Optimisation for Field-Programmable Gate Arrays in SystemC Hardware Compilation

Table 1

Comparison between function call methods for various designs targeting an XC4VLX40 FPGA.

Example	Func size (slices)	Calls	Args	Method	Size (slices)	𝑓max (MHz)
IDCT	1,008	2	9	inline	6,213	69
				exline	6,165	69
DET	541	3	4	inline	2,418	74
				exline	1,715	61
MULT	2,424	3	3	inline	7,218	78
				exline	2,747	64