Designing a reorder buffer in bluespec

Dave, Nirav

doi:10.1109/memcod.2004.1459823

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“…In order to decouple modules, the interface of each module is implemented with the ready/enable handshaking approach, which is embodied in the Put and Get interfaces [3]. The Bluespec compiler automatically enforces ready/enable handshaking between modules connected in this manner such that an upstream module will block if the downstream module is not ready.…”

Section: Transaction-level Modeling Style Interfacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

From WiFi to WiMAX: Techniques for High-Level IP Reuse across Different OFDM Protocols

Vijayaraghavan

Dave

et al. 2007

2007 5th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Formal Methods and Models for Codesign (MEMOCODE 2007)

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Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) has become the preferred modulation scheme for both broadband and high bitrate digital wireless protocols because of its spectral efficiency and robustness against multipath interference. Although the components and overall structure of different OFDM protocols are functionally similar, the characteristics of the environment for which a wireless protocol is designed often result in different instantiations of various components. In this paper, we describe how we can instantiate baseband processoring of two different wireless protocols, namely 802.11a and 802.16 in Bluespec from a highly parameterized code for a generic OFDM protocol. Our approach results in highly reusable IP blocks that can dramatically reduce the time-to-market of new OFDM protocols. One advantage of Bluespec over SystemC is that our code is synthesizable into high quality hardware, which we demonstrate via synthesis results. Using a Viterbi decoder we also demonstrate how parameterization can be used to study area-performance tradeoff in the implementation of a module. Furthermore, parameterized modules and modular composition can facilitate implementation-grounded algorithmic exploration in the design of new protocols.

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Section: Transaction-level Modeling Style Interfacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

From WiFi to WiMAX: Techniques for High-Level IP Reuse across Different OFDM Protocols

Vijayaraghavan

Dave

et al. 2007

2007 5th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Formal Methods and Models for Codesign (MEMOCODE 2007)

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“…Although relatively new, Bluespec seems to have captured the interest of industry and academia, as shown by the BSV designs making their appearance (i.e. [4,5,21]). …”

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BluEJAMM: A Bluespec Embedded Java Architecture with Memory Management

Gruian

Westmijze

2007

Ninth International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (SYNASC 2007)

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“…Bluespec has received attention both from industry and academia, and a number of rather complex designs written using BSV have been published (e.g. [5,6,11,13,14,33]). …”

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Java bytecode to hardware made easy with bluespec system verilog

Gruian

Arslan

2012

Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Java Technologies for Real-Time and Embedded Systems

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This paper presents a method for translation of Java bytecode sequences into synthesizable hardware, using the Bluespec SystemVerilog (BSV) environment. At the core of our approach lies a BSV description of a subset of Java bytecodes, that can be used to directly translate bytecode sequences into a BSV specification. The result is intended as an accelerator for existing Java processors (JOP, BlueJEP) or even standalone hardware. Preliminary evaluation shows our solution to produce hardware on par with established methods (area/performance), while supporting rare features (e.g. easy to automate, method calls and recursion).

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Designing a reorder buffer in bluespec

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Cited by 14 publications

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From WiFi to WiMAX: Techniques for High-Level IP Reuse across Different OFDM Protocols

From WiFi to WiMAX: Techniques for High-Level IP Reuse across Different OFDM Protocols

BluEJAMM: A Bluespec Embedded Java Architecture with Memory Management

Java bytecode to hardware made easy with bluespec system verilog

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