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Text Application-Driven Architecture Synthesis catthoor svensson
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DATE: april 1993
TITLE: Text on Application-Driven Architecture Synthesis by Catthoor and Svensson

Text on Application-Driven Architecture Synthesis by Catthoor and Svensson

      (Contributed by Francky Catthoor of IMEC)

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                     APPLICATION-DRIVEN
 
                  ARCHITECTURE  SYNTHESIS
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Edited by Francky Catthoor and Lars Svensson, IMEC, Leuven, Belgium


                   KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS

                    Boston/London/Dordrecht  

                       ISBN 0792393554
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More information can be found by anonymous FTP to world.std.com on the 
directory "kluwer/books".  There you will find the files
"application_synthesis" (ASCII summary and order info), INDEX (index) 
and "application_syn_chap1.ps.Z" (compressed PostScript).

                            SUMMARY

The main intention of this book is to give an impression of the way 
current research in high-level and behavioral synthesis for real-time 
architectures is going.  The focus lies especially on domains where 
application-specific VLSI solutions are attractive, such as significant 
parts of audio, telecom, instrumentation, speech, robotics, medical 
and automotive processing, image and video processing, TV, multimedia, 
radar, and sonar processing.

The material in this book is based on work in the context of two EC 
research projects, Ascis (Architecture Synthesis for Complex Integrated 
Systems) and Nana (Novel parallel Algorithms for New real-time 
Architectures), both sponsored by the Esprit program of Directorate 
XIII of the European Commission.  The chapters are partly based on 
material presented at the final project workshops, which took place 
at IMEC in Leuven, Belgium, on the 29th and 30th of April, 1992, 
marking the completion of three successful years of project cooperation.

The partners of the Nana project were: Delft University of Technology, 
the Netherlands; 'Ecole Normale Sup'erieure de Lyon (ENSL),
France; Inter-university Micro-Electronic Center (IMEC), Leuven, Belgium;
IRISA, Rennes, France; and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.  The
Ascis partners were:  Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The
Netherlands; IMEC, Leuven, Belgium; INPG/TIM3, Grenoble, France; Tech-
nical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany; Technical University of
Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark; Patras University, Patras, Greece; and Lund Uni-
versity, Lund, Sweden. With seven partners in seven countries, Ascis in par-
ticular was a good example of a pan-European research project.

The goal of the hardware synthesis work within these projects has been to
contribute design methodologies and synthesis techniques which address the
design trajectory from real behavior down to the RT-level structural specifica-
tion of the system.  In order to provide complete support for this synthesis
trajectory, many design problems must be tackled. We do not claim to cover
the complete path, but we do believe we have contributed to the solution of a
number of the most crucial problems in the domains of specification and synthe-
sis. We therefore expect this book to be of interest in academia; not for detailed
descriptions of the research results_these have been published elsewhere_but
for the overview of the field and a view on the many important but less widely
known issues which must be addressed to arrive at industrially relevant results.

The Ascis and Nana projects have also been application-driven from the start,
and the book is intended to reflect this fact. The real-life applications that
have driven the research are described, and the impact of their characteristics 
on the methodologies is assessed. We therefore believe that the book will be 
of interest to senior design engineers and CAD managers in industry, who wish 
either to anticipate the evolution of commercially available design tools 
over the next few years, or to make use of the concepts in their own research
and development. 

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