Method of designing an integrated circuit using scheduling and allocation with parallelism and handshaking communication, and an integrated circuit designed by such method

摘要

An integrated circuit is designed by defining its functions in a programming language which supports parallelism and synchronized communication. The resulting source code is supplied to a compiler which includes an optimizer module for retiming synchronized communication without changing the order of external communications of the integrated circuit. The compiler produces output code which represents the circuitry of the integrated circuit and which may be supplied to synthesis tools and subsequent steps in the manufacture of the integrated circuit.