Synthesis Categories

• Algorithm synthesis

  • Synthesis from design requirements to control-flow behavior or abstract behavior
  • Largely a manual process

• Register-transfer synthesis

  • Also referred to as “high-level” or “behavioral” synthesis
  • Synthesis from either abstract behavior, control-flow behavior, or register-transfer behavior to register-transfer structure

• Logic synthesis

  • Synthesis from register-transfer structures or Boolean equations to gate-level logic (or physical implementations using a predefined cell or IC library)

[Parker84]

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These terms and definitions were largely extracted from [Parker84].