TOWARDS DESIGNING, TESTING, AND VALIDATING HIGH PERFORMANCE VLSI SIGNAL PROCESSORS.

A high-level interactive system is considered which allows a user, with only a rudimentary knowledge of VLSI, to generate a design at the layout level for performing various signal processing operations. The design process is completely automated and does not require the user to supply algorithms or their corresponding architectures. The system is flexible enough to allow comparing several different possible design alternatives and to tailor the design according to needs. The architecture scheme is based on a set of algorithms that need relatively few arithmetic operations and that have a general structure that lends itself well to highly parallel, pipelined designs.