{"product_id":"9781461373001","title":"Understanding Behavioral Synthesis: A Practical Guide to High-Level Design","description":"\u003ch1\u003eUnderstanding Behavioral Synthesis: A Practical Guide to High-Level Design\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eElliott, John P.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBehavioral Synthesis: A Practical Guide to High-Level  Design\u003c\/em\u003e includes details on new material and new interpretations of  old material with an emphasis on practical information. The intended  audience is the ASIC (or high-end FPGA) designer who will be using  behavioral synthesis, the manager who will be working with those  designers, or the engineering student who is studying leading-edge  design techniques. \u003cbr\u003e  Today's designs are creating tremendous pressures for digital  designers. Not only must they compress more functionality onto a  single IC, but this has to be done on shorter schedules to stay ahead  in extremely competitive markets. To meet these opposing demands,  designers must work at a new, higher level of abstraction to  efficiently make the kind of architectural decisions that are critical  to the success of today's complex designs. In other words, they must  include behavioral design in their flow. \u003cbr\u003e  The biggest challenge to adopting behavioral design is changing the  mindset of the designer. Instead of describing system functionality in  great detail, the designer outlines the design in broader, more  abstract terms. The ability to easily and efficiently consider  multiple design alternatives over a wide range of cost and performance  is an extremely persuasive reason to make this leap to a high level of  abstraction. Designers that learn to think and work at the behavioral  level will reap major benefits in the resultant quality of the final  design. \u003cbr\u003e  But such changes in methodology are difficult to achieve rapidly.  Education is essential to making this transition. Many designers will  recall the difficulty transitioning from schematic-based design to RTL  design. Designers that were new to the technology often felt that they  had not been told enough about how synthesis worked and that they were  not taught how to effectively write HDL code that would synthesize  efficiently. \u003cbr\u003e  Using this unique book, a designer willunderstand what behavioral  synthesis tools are doing (and why) and how to effectively describe  their designs that they are appropriately synthesized. \u003cbr\u003e  CD ROM INCLUDED! \u003cbr\u003e  The accompanying CD-ROM contains the source code and test benches for  the three case studies discussed in Chapters 14, 15 and 16.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2013-04-19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781461373001\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-1-4615-5059-4\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 254cm x178cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 319\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46312840757388,"sku":"9781461373001","price":152.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781461373001.jpg?v=1771531129","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781461373001","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}