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Peter A. Milder, Franz Franchetti, James C. Hoe and Markus Püschel (CSSI Technical Report #CSSI-07-01, Carnegie Mellon University, 2007)
Discrete Fourier Transform Compiler: From Mathematical Representation to Efficient Hardware
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A wide range of hardware implementations are possible for the discrete Fourier transform (DFT), offering different tradeoffs in throughput, latency and cost. The well-understood structure of DFT algorithms makes possible a fully automatic synthesis framework that can span the viable interesting design choices. In this paper, we present such a synthesis framework that starts from formal mathematical formulas of a general class of fast DFT algorithms and produces performance and cost efficient sequential hardware implementations, making design decisions and tradeoffs according to user specified high-level preferences. We present evaluations to demonstrate the variety of supported implementations and the cost/performance tradeoffs they allow.
Keywords: IP cores for FPGA/ASIC, Discrete/fast Fourier transformMore information: