AAA and SynDEx-Ic: A Methodology and a Software Framework for the Implementation of Real-Time Applications onto Reconfigurable Circuits

Abstract

AAA is a methodology developed for the fast prototyping of real-time embedded applications and SynDEx is the software tool based on this methodology. Based on formal transformations, AAA helps the designer to implement signal and images processing algorithms onto multicomponent. This includes the support of both algorithm and architecture specifications, resources allocations and optimizations, performances prediction and multicomponents code generation. Since AAA did not initially support configurable components, this paper presents an extension of AAA/SynDEx for FPGA. This still includes the support of specification, optimization, performance prediction and automatic VHDL code generation. This paper focuses on the implementation of this work in SynDEx-Ic.