High-Level Synthesis Blue Book

Are you an RTL or system designer that is currently using moving or planning to move to an HLS design environment?<br><br>Finally a comprehensive guide for designing hardware using C++ is here. Michael Fingeroff's <i><b>High-Level Synthesis Blue Book </i></b>presents the most effective C++ synthesis coding style for achieving high quality RTL. Master a totally new design methodology for coding increasingly complex designs! <br><br>This book provides a step-by-step approach to using C++ as a hardware design language including an introduction to the basics of HLS using concepts familiar to RTL designers. Each chapter provides easy-to-understand C++ examples along with hardware and timing diagrams where appropriate. <br><br>The book progresses from simple concepts such as sequential logic design to more complicated topics such as memory architecture and hierarchical sub-system design. Later chapters bring together many of the earlier HLS design concepts through their application in simplified design examples. These examples illustrate the fundamental principles behind C++ hardware design which will translate to much larger designs. Although this book focuses primarily on C and C++ to present the basics of C++ synthesis all of the concepts are equally applicable to SystemC when describing the core algorithmic part of a design.<br><br>On completion of this book readers should be well on their way to becoming experts in high-level synthesis.