I am trying to build an hypothetical system to benchmark various high level synthesis tools.

Recently, design community has started to warm up to the idea of High Level Synthesis tools again. However, there still exists a significant barrier to High Level Synthesis tool adoptation. See Analysis - Failure of High Level Synthesis Tools. Idea is to enable design community to make decision and set correct expectations in regards to High Level Synthesis tools.

Performance parameters for High Level Synthesis tool are defined and based on these parameters, a hypothetical benchmark system is created. Tool benchmark is done entirely based on public domain information to avoid copyright & intellectual property issues and to keep system unbiased. Needless to say, feedbacks are appreciated. Efforts are underway to develop a representative design problem to measure tool effectiveness as well.

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