FRIDGE: a fixed-point design and simulation environment Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:5432887, abstract = {Digital systems, especially those for mobile applications are sensitive to power consumption, chip size and costs. Therefore they are realized using fixed-point architectures, either dedicated HW or programmable DSPs. On the other hand, system design starts from a floating-point description. These requirements have been the motivation for FRIDGE (Fixed-point pRogrammIng DesiGn Environment), a design environment for the specification, evaluation and implementation of fixed-point systems. FRIDGE offers a seamless design flow from a floating- point description to a fixed-point implementation. Within this paper we focus on two core capabilities of FRIDGE: (1) the concept of an interactive, automated transformation of floating-point programs written in ANSI-C into fixed-point specifications, based on an interpolative approach. The design time reductions that can be achieved make FRIDGE a key component for an efficient HW/SW-CoDesign. (2) a fast fixed-point simulation that performs comprehensive compile-time analyses, reducing simulation time by one order of magnitude compared to existing approaches.}, address = {Washington, DC, USA}, author = {Keding, H. and Willems, M. and Coors, M. and Meyr, H.}, booktitle = {DATE '98: Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe}, citeulike-article-id = {5432887}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=368058.368259}, isbn = {0-8186-8359-7}, keywords = {8-18, ffc, ffc-tools, thesis}, location = {Le Palais des Congr\'{e}s de Paris, France}, pages = {429--435}, posted-at = {2009-08-13 17:42:13}, priority = {5}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, title = {FRIDGE: a fixed-point design and simulation environment}, url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=368058.368259}, year = {1998} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:5432887 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5432887 N2 - Digital systems, especially those for mobile applications are sensitive to power consumption, chip size and costs. Therefore they are realized using fixed-point architectures, either dedicated HW or programmable DSPs. On the other hand, system design starts from a floating-point description. These requirements have been the motivation for FRIDGE (Fixed-point pRogrammIng DesiGn Environment), a design environment for the specification, evaluation and implementation of fixed-point systems. FRIDGE offers a seamless design flow from a floating- point description to a fixed-point implementation. Within this paper we focus on two core capabilities of FRIDGE: (1) the concept of an interactive, automated transformation of floating-point programs written in ANSI-C into fixed-point specifications, based on an interpolative approach. The design time reductions that can be achieved make FRIDGE a key component for an efficient HW/SW-CoDesign. (2) a fast fixed-point simulation that performs comprehensive compile-time analyses, reducing simulation time by one order of magnitude compared to existing approaches. CY - Le Palais des Congr\'{e}s de Paris, France SN - 0-8186-8359-7 AD - Washington, DC, USA EP - 435 TI - FRIDGE: a fixed-point design and simulation environment PB - IEEE Computer Society T2 - DATE '98: Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe SP - 429 KW - 8-18 KW - ffc KW - ffc-tools KW - thesis AU - Keding, H AU - Willems, M AU - Coors, M AU - Meyr, H PY - 1998/// UR - http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=368058.368259 ER -