We are pleased to announce the release of the SPARK parallelizing high-level synthesis software tool developed at the Center for Embedded Computer Systems. SPARK takes the behavior of an application specified in C as input (with some restrictions) and produces register-transfer level (RTL) VHDL. SPARK employs several parallelizing compiler, compiler, and high-level synthesis transformations to generate a scheduled, resource bound data path along with a FSM controller. We have benchmarked SPARK on a range of multimedia and image processing designs and also a case study with an Intel design.
The download page is at:
This page has SPARK binaries for Linux, Solaris and Windows platforms, a User Manual, and a Tutorial with a MPEG-1 player as an example.
See publications on the SPARK webpage for more details on our work:
Sincerely
Sumit Gupta, Rajesh Gupta, Nikil Dutt, Alexandru Nicolau
************************************ Sumit Gupta Post-Doctoral Researcher Center for Embedded Computer Systems Univ. of California, San Diego & Irvine
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