Towards Compilation of Streaming Programs into FPGA Hardware

There is an increasing need for automated conversion of high-level design descriptions into hardware. We present a flow that converts a software application written in the Brook streaming language into a hardware description targeting FPGAs. We use a combination of our source-tosource compiler and a commercial C2H behavioral synthesis compiler. Our approach results in a significant throughput increase compared to software and ordinary C2H results (up to 8.9X and 4.3X, respectively). The throughput can be further increased by using more hardware resources to exploit data parallelism available in streaming applications.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: FDL
• Authors: Franjo Plavec, Zvonko G. Vranesic, Stephen Dean Brown
• Keywords: Behavioral Synthesis Compiler, Brook Streaming Language, Description Targeting Fpgas, FDL 2008, Natural Language Processing