Fast Design Space Exploration Using Vivado HLS: Non-binary LDPC Decoders

One of the advantages of High-Level Synthesis (HLS), also called C-based VLSI-design, over traditional RT-level VLSI design flows, is that multiple micro-architectures of unique area vs. performance can be automatically generated by setting different ...

The quest to democratize the use of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) has given High-Level Synthesis (HLS) the final push to be widely accepted with FPGA vendors strongly supporting this VLSI design methodology to expand the FPGA user base. HLS takes ...

Raising the level of VLSI design abstraction to the behavioral level allows to generate different micro-architectures from the same behavioral description by simply setting different synthesis options. These are typically synthesis directives in the ...