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Fang Fang, James C. Hoe, Markus Püschel and Smarahara Misra (Proc. High Performance Extreme Computing (HPEC), 2002)
Generation of Custom DSP Transform IP Cores: Case Study Walsh-Hadamard Transform
Bibtex
Hardware designers are increasingly relying on pre-designed DSP (digital signal processing) cores from IP libraries to improve their productivity and reduce design time. Unfortunately, static DSP cores cannot accommodate application-specific trade-offs. To overcome this problem, we are proposing to automatically generate customized DSP cores that can be tailored for specific design requirements. This enables a designer, with no specific background in DSP transform mathematics, to quickly create and evaluate different design choices and to determine the one that is most suitable for the application. In this paper, we present a generator for the Walsh-Hadamard Transform (WHT). The generator accepts as input the WHT's sample size and two implementation parameters that control the degree of hardware reuse. The output is an RTL-level Verilog description of the desired implementation. We present experimental results that compare our different generated designs for the same transform with respect to resource requirements, computation latency, and throughput.
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