We introduce a new approach to take into account the memory architecture and the memory mapping in High- Level Synthesis for data intensive applications. We formalize the memory mapping as a set of constraints for the synthesis, and defined a Memory Constraint Graph and an accessibility criterion to be used in the scheduling step. We use a memory mapping file to include those memory constraints in our HLS tool GAUT. It is possible, with the help of GAUT, to explore a wide range of solutions, and to reach a good tradeoff between time, power-consumption, and area.
@article{arxiv.cs/0605144,
title = {A Memory Aware High Level Synthesis Too},
author = {Gwenolé Corre and Nathalie Julien and Eric Senn and Eric Martin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0605144},
year = {2016}
}