A C-based synthesis system, Bach, and its application

Proceedings of the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC

Volumn 2001-January, Issue , 2001, Pages 151-155

  Kambe, T ^a   Yamada, A ^a   Nishida, K ^a   Okada, K ^a   Ohnishi, M ^a   Kay, A ^b   Boca, P ^b   Zammit, V ^b   Nomura, T ^b  

^a SHARP CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b SHARP LABORATORIES OF EUROPE LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Algorithm design and analysis; Circuit simulation; Circuit synthesis; Electronic design automation and methodology; Hardware; Large scale integration; Parallel processing; Synthesizers; System level design; Video codecs

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CIRCUIT SIMULATION; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER HARDWARE; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY HOPPING; LSI CIRCUITS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); VIDEO CONFERENCING; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM DESIGN AND ANALYSIS; CIRCUIT SYNTHESIS; ELECTRONIC DESIGN AUTOMATION AND METHODOLOGIES; PARALLEL PROCESSING; SYNTHESIZERS; SYSTEM LEVEL DESIGN; VIDEO CODECS;

DESIGN;

EID: 84949791556     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASPDAC.2001.913296     Document Type: Conference Paper

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