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From MATLAB® to High-Quality RTL Using High-Level Synthesis — The Design Methodology

September 22, 2020 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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Online – Sep 22, 2020
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM US/Pacific

Overview

MATLAB® is a de facto standard algorithm development tool in many image and signal processing hardware designs. Yet, the traditional path from an abstract floating-point MATLAB model to high-quality RTL code is long and often requires multiple manual coding stages, several designers and many code bases to be maintained.

This process can be simplified by using Catapult® High-Level Synthesis (HLS) along with a sophisticated workflow. The model transformation from MATLAB to class-based C++ is much simpler than transformation from MATLAB to RTL because the abstraction level can be kept high.

Using a systematic data type definition scheme, the conversion to fixed-point can be done in C++ using the same functional C++ code for both floating-point and fixed-point implementations. This reduces the number of code bases to be maintained down to two: one MATLAB and one C++ model that can be automatically validated.

The whole process can be completed by 1-2 designers in a short time resulting in similar or even better power, performance and area metrics compared to a hand-coded implementation.

This webinar introduces a design methodology that starts from a self-contained MATLAB script and goes through the different workflow steps to HLS generated, high-quality RTL. All design steps including fixed-point conversion are described in detail.

What You Will Learn

  • MATLAB to RTL methodology overview
  • Model analysis, data type extraction and HLS structure planning
  • Fixed-point analysis basics
  • Validation of C++ model in MATLAB
  • Step-by-step walkthrough of the workflow
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Petri Solanti
Petri SolantiPetri Solanti is a senior application engineer at Mentor, A Siemens Business, with an HLS and low-power tools focus. He is a designer and application engineer with over 25 years of experience in Electronics System-Level design tools and methodologies. His areas of interest include design methodologies from algorithm to RTL, system analysis and HW/SW co-design. Prior to Mentor, Mr. Solanti held application engineer positions at Cadence, CoWare, Synopsys and MathWorks. He received his MScEE degree from Tampere University of Technology, Finland.

Who Should Attend

  • Engineering Directors who need faster design cycles and lower verification costs than RTL design provides
  • RTL Design and verification managers who need to improve team productivity
  • RTL Designers concerned that RTL might no longer be enough to compete
  • System Architects looking for optimal design partitioning for power, performance and area
  • Algorithm Developers who are interested in HW bottlenecks in their algorithm

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