High-Level Synthesis of a Multithreaded Processor for Image Generation

Takao ONOYE  Toshihiro MASAKI  Isao SHIRAKAWA  Hiroaki HIRATA  Kozo KIMURA  Shigeo ASAHARA  Takayuki SAGISHIMA  

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E78-A   No.3   pp.322-330
Publication Date: 1995/03/25
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Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section of Selected Papers from the 7th Karuizawa Workshop on Circuits and Systems)
Category: VLSI Design Technology and CAD
Keyword: 
processor,  multithread,  parallel processing,  high-level synthesis,  image generation,  

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Summary: 
The design procedure of a multithreaded processor dedicated to the image generation is described, which can be achieved by means of a high-level synthesis tool PARTHENON. The processor employs a multithreaded architecture which is a novel promising approach to the parallel image generation. This paper puts special stress on the high-level synthesis scheme which can simplify the behavioral description for the structure and control of a complex hardware, and therefore enables the design of a complicated mechanism for a multithreaded processor. Implementation results of the synthesis are also shown to demonstrate the performance of the designed processor. This processor greatly improves the throughput of the image generation so far attained by the conventional approach.