Circuit design method using high level synthesis, involves dividing the circuit diagram into a number of syntactic and semantic elements and assigning classes to each element from a hierarchical class structure

摘要

The method involves dividing the circuit diagram into a number of syntactic and semantic elements, in particular expressions, declarations, instructions and types. The individual elements are identified with corresponding classes from a hierarchical class structure, and their individual class synthesis information is assigned. An object-oriented data structure is produced for the circuit diagram through instantiation of the classes from the class structure, with the individual syntactic and semantic elements identified. A circuit implementation is produced from the object-oriented data structure. An independent claim is included for a device for circuit design using high level synthesis.