What is the High-Level Synthesis Blue Book?

Overview

In this webcast the author, Mike Fingeroff, will walk you through each chapter of the High-Level Synthesis Blue Book and answer your questions.

The High-Level Synthesis Blue Book is a comprehensive guide for designing hardware using C++, regardless of which HLS tool is used. It targets RTL designers currently using, moving, or planning to move to an HLS design environment.

The book provides a step-by-step approach to using C++ as a hardware design language, including an introduction to the basics of HLS using concepts familiar to RTL designers. Each chapter provides easy to understand C++ examples, along with hardware and timing diagrams where appropriate.

The book progresses from simple concepts, such as sequential logic design, to more complicated topics, such as memory architecture and hierarchical sub-system design.

The later design chapters bring together many of the earlier HLS design concepts. After completing the exercises in this book, a designer will be well on their way to becoming an expert in high-level synthesis.

• Chapter 1: Making the Case for High-Level Synthesis
• Chapter 2: General C++ Style
• Chapter 3: Bit Accurate C++
• Chapter 4: Fundamentals of High-Level Synthesis
• Chapter 5: Scheduling of I/O and Memories
• Chapter 6: Sequential and Combinational Hardware
• Chapter 7: Memory Architecture
• Chapter 8: Hierarchical Design
• Chapter 9: Advanced Hierarchical Design
• Chapter 10: FIR Filters
• Chapter 11: FFT Transform