PandA Tools and Libraries

Introduction

The PandA project contains the the set of tools and libraries reported below.

Tools

The tools that can be configured and so enabled are:

• Bambu HLS provides high-level synthesis functionalities
• Eucalyptus allows the characterization of resources in the technology library

Libraries sub-projects

Creation and dumping of intermediate representation:

• Subproject Parsers: provides all the available parsers, adopted to acquire the data that the tools use as input to their algorithms.
• Subproject Graph: contains the definition of the graph-based descriptions.
• Subproject POLIXML: contains the definition of a simple and easy-to-use XML library.
• Subproject Behavior: contains functions to manage and to represent graphs with different granularity. In particular we can represent CFG/DFG/CDG/DDG/SDG for operations and CFG/DFG/Dom/PostDom for basic blocks.
• Subproject src_tree_page provides "Tree:" functions to manage and to represent the tree computed by the GCC compilation.
• Subproject Frontend: contains the algorithms adopted to build the entire intermediate representation (both tree and graph-based).
• Subproject Parsers: it provides backend functions to C, SystemC, VHDL, and Verilog descriptions.

Resource library and circuit representation management:

• Subproject Technology: provides functions to manage and to represent technology information.
• Subproject Circuit: describes a generic data structure representing a circuit.
• Subproject Wrappers: it provides classes to wrap commercial synthesis tools.

Bambu tool:

• Subproject High-Level Synthesis provides algorithms for high-level synthesis.

Development aids:

• Subproject src_algorithms_page contains a set of useful algorithms that can be used to aid problem solution into development.
• Subproject ILP Solver provides utilities used to solve ILP formulations.
• Subproject src_utility_page contains some useful macros and functions.