PART 2: Automate your ACCELERATION

摘要

The second installment in a two-part series explores how automation enables designers without hardware backgrounds to create custom hardware acceleration. A growing number of products are automating the translation of algorithm models and software code into hardware, enabling designers without detailed hardware backgrounds to implement custom hardware acceleration. These tools do not change the design or tool flow but rather automate some of the manual steps in the process (Figure 1). Their goal is to reduce the time it takes to implement a design over alternative methods, allow designers to explore more design configurations, enable entire design teams to work from a single source during a project's duration, use automated correct-by-construction methods to improve process reliability, and ensure that the verification process ties back to the original specification.