Algorithmic level

Behavioral or algorithmic Level This level describes a system by concurrent algorithms. Only the functional description of the individual blocks is described and not the intricacies of the system. 

Robert A. Walker and Donald E. Thomas, "Behavioral Transformation for Algorithmic Level IC Design , IEEE Trans, on CAD, pages 1115 1128, October 1989. 

Algorithmic level behavioral and structural transformations, adding concurrent processes to an elliptical filter, pipelining theMCS6502. 

Robert Allen Walker, Design Representation and Behavioral Transformation for Algorithmic Level Integrated Circuit Design, PhD Thesis, Dept, of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, April 1988. 

A model of design representation, algorithmic level behavioral and structural transformations, adding concurrent processes to a fifth-order digital elliptic wave filter example, pipelining the MCS6502 and the RISC-1. 

VHDL behavioral and dataflow descriptions at the logic. Register Transfer, and algorithmic levels. Signals can be typed, can have a specified bit width, and can have clocking and sensitivity information specified. 

This book presents research aimed at providing computer-aided design tools for two higher level steps in the design process Algorithmic Level synthesis and Register-Transfer Level synthesis. 

Computer-aided design tools to support Algorithmic Level synthesis. 

The Behavioral Transformations tool provides a means to transform the original behavioral description. These transformations make the behavior more appropriate for implementation and provide the basis for exploring the design space at the Algorithmic Level of design. 

The Behavioral Domain describes the behavior, or functionality, of the design, either as a complete, program-like description, or as set of behavioral descriptions. For example, at the Algorithmic level, the Behavioral Domain might be represented by a description of the algorithm to be implemented. Variables and the operations on them... 

The model described in the previous section provides a philosophical backdrop upon which more detailed representations and S5mthesis steps may be described. The rest of this chapter begins to present these details. First, the Algorithmic level behavioral representations used as input to the Workbench tools are presented. Second, the Register-Transfer representations generated by the Workbench are presented. With this more-detailed background, the synthesis steps necessary to... 

Now that the basic representations for the Workbench synthesis tools have been defined, this section defines the synthesis steps necessary to produce a controller and data path represented at the Register-Transfer level from a behavioral specification at the Algorithmic Level. 

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