Research Article

Architectural Synthesis of Fixed-Point DSP Datapaths Using FPGAs

Table 6

Complete versus simplified cost estimation: area improvement (%).

Arch. Bench. Area improvement
MinMaxMean

HOM 0.00 0.95 0.30
0.71 3.50 1.53
0.00 5.35 1.26
0.00 1.77 0.31

HET 0.00 25.85 1.89
1.15 5.77 2.52
0.00 35.57 8.09
0.00 8.11 0.83

All0.0035.57 2.09