AUTOMATIC OPTIMAL INTEGRATED CIRCUIT GENERATOR FROM ALGORITHMS AND SPECIFICATION

摘要

Automated design of a custom integrated circuit based on algorithmic process as input and using highly automated tools that requires virtually no human involvement is disclosed. The method includes receiving a specification of the custom integrated circuit including computer readable code and constraints on the custom integrated circuit; generating a computer-architecture for the computer readable code that best fits the constraints; automatically determining an instruction execution sequence based on the code profile and reassigning or delaying the instruction sequence to spread operation over processing blocks to reduce hot spots; continuously evaluating and optimizing one or more factors including physical implementation, and local and global area, timing, or power at an architecture level above RTL or gate-level synthesis; and automatically synthesizing the designed architecture and generating a computer readable description of the custom integrated circuit for semiconductor fabrication.