User Manual for the SPARK Parallelizing
High-Level Synthesis Framework
Version 1.1

Sumit Gupta

























Center for Embedded Computer Systems
University of California at San Diego and Irvine
sumitg@cecs.uci.edu
http://mesl.ucsd.edu/spark

Copyright © 2003-2004 The Regents of the University of California.
All Rights Reserved.

• Table of Contents
• About this Manual
  • Copyright
  • Disclaimer
  • Reporting Bugs
  • Acknowledgments
  • Change Log
• Introduction to the Spark High-Level Synthesis Framework
  • Inferring Hardware Intent from C
  • Restrictions on ``C'' Accepted as Input
• Quick Start Guide
  • Downloading and Installing Spark
  • Files Required and Directory Setup
  • Recommended Command-line Options for Invoking Spark
  • Options for Synthesizing Microprocessor Blocks
• Detailed Instructions
  • Command Line Interface
  • Viewing Output Graphs
  • Hardware Description File Format: default.spark
  • VHDL Output Generated by Spark
  • Scripting Options for Controlling Transformations and Heuristics: Priority.rules
• Sample default.spark Hardware Description file
• Recommended Priority.rules Synthesis Script file
• Modifying Input Code to be Synthesizable by Spark
  • Input Code with Structs
  • Input Code with Pointers
  • Input Code with Breaks
  • Input Code with Continues
  • Input Code in which an Argument is Modified
  • Input Code with ``?'' if-then-else
  • Input Code with Multi-Dimensional Arrays
• References

This document was translated from L^AT_EX by H^EV^EA and H^AC^HA.