Ayse

Abstract

This paper presents an educational Electronic Design Automation tool called AYSE (Automated SYstem Synthesis Environment). AYSE is developed to help undergraduate and graduate students better understand and implement fundamental concepts in digital electronic design and synthesis courses. It receives an intermediate format that represents the system behavior and a set of constraints as input; and generates the representation of the actual circuit using the electronic components (functional units, memory and steering logic components) available in its technology library. A user can load the input from an external file or utilize the graphical user interface (GUI). Similarly, the output can be displayed using GUI or written to a file. The user is able to interact with the tool during the synthesis process and select the algorithms to perform three main synthesis tasks; namely, resource allocation, operation scheduling and resource binding/sharing. It is also possible to run the tool for the most efficient solution. The effectiveness of the tool was tested in a graduate level course.