Problem 2: Efficient IP Development
In DSP the real IP are the ALGORITHMS, not the RTL implementation of these algorithms
- e.g. a low power ADPCM codec for wireless will be quite different (full parralel, high gate count) from a low gatecount ADPCM (resource shared, low gate count)
The problem is how to capture the ALGORITHM in a reusable way
- need to make abstraction of the RTL details, focus on the algorithm
- need to be able to derive various RTL implementations from it in an automatic way