Research Article

Architectural Synthesis of Fixed-Point DSP Datapaths Using FPGAs

Table 5

MWL synthesis: homogeneous versus heterogeneous architectures.

Bench. %
MinMaxMean

40.73 52.69 51.60
43.29 53.98 53.01
50.45 54.76 54.32

42.68 43.09 42.72
39.36 39.36 39.36
38.73 39.74 38.82

34.83 44.77 36.04
32.92 48.23 35.96
33.21 48.79 35.79

21.42 41.46 28.37
27.02 44.68 33.24
27.46 44.62 33.52

All 21.42 54.76 40.23