MICROELECTRONIC SYSTEMS NEWS



FILENUMBER: 605
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hyper synthesis datapath software
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DATE: april 1994
TITLE: HYPER, Datapath Synthesis Software


HYPER, Datapath Synthesis Software

(Contributed by Bob Reese of Mississippi State University)

HYPER is a synthesis environment for real-time systems with datapath
intensive architectures such as those needed by DSP and imaging
applications. HYPER was created by Professor Jan Rabaey and his group at
U.C. Berkeley.  Designs are specified via the 'Silage' language; HYPER
creates a dataflowgraph from the silage specification and allows the
user to quickly explore the implementation space via retiming,
pipelining, and algebraic tranformations which attempt to find
optimal solutions against user specified timing constraints.  HYPER
outputs either Synopsis-compatible VHDL or mixed Standard
cell/datapapth netlists for use with the Lager toolset.

New features in the latest version include:

 a. More algebraic transformations
 b. Stochastic Power Estimation
 c. Vdd/Clock Exploration

Version 2.7 of HYPER is a source/binary release for SUN
Sparcstations.  No compilation is needed for SUN Sparcstations. 
Porting to other platforms is the responsibility of the user.  

To receive an FTP account, send email to hyper-request@erc.msstate.edu 
with the following form (filled out) in the body of the message:

 Name: 
 Organization:  
 Phone: 
 Email:  
 USMail:  
 Requested FTP account name:  

Send email to reese@erc.msstate.edu for any other questions.

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