Nc. Horta et Je. Franca, ALGORITHM-DRIVEN SYNTHESIS OF DATA CONVERSION ARCHITECTURES, IEEE transactions on computer-aided design of integrated circuits and systems, 16(10), 1997, pp. 1116-1135
A new, algorithm-driven methodology is introduced for the synthesis of
data conversion systems, It employs a combination of symbolic signal
flow graph techniques to generate a canonical representation of the al
gorithm description, together with pattern recognition techniques, to
determine the appropriate functional building blocks for the converter
architecture and knowledge-based rules to instantiate such building b
locks by electrical subcircuits, By allowing the synthesis process to
move to higher levels of abstraction the proposed methodology provides
a computer-based framework for the systematic and uniform treatment o
f various types of conversion systems, including the search for new co
nversion algorithms and/or new implementation architectures.