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1\begin{taskinfo}
2\let\UBS\leader
3\let\UPMC\enable
4\let\TIMA\enable
5\end{taskinfo}
6%
7\begin{objectif}
8The objectives of this task are to provide the two HAS back-ends of the COACH project and
9a tool that adapt the coprocessor frequency to the FPGA-SoC frequency as given
10by the processors and the BUS.
11%pourquoi en majuscule?
12\\
13The HAS back-ends as shown in figure~\ref{archi-hls} reads \xcoach data and provides
14\xcoachplus data, i.e. \xcoach data annotated with hardware information such as
15variables bindings to registers, operations bindings to cells and a schedule. The \xcoach format
16being generated by \novers{\specXcoachToCA} deliverable and \xcoachplus being treated by
17\novers{\specXcoachToSystemC} and \novers{\specXcoachToVhdl} deliverables,
18this task is very dependent on task~1.
19\par
20For the two HAS front-end, this task is based on the already existing HLS tools GAUT and
21UGH. These tools are complementary and not in competition because they cover respectively
22data and control dominated designs.
23The organization of the task is firstly to integrate quickly the existing HLS to the COACH
24framework. Secondly these tools will be improved to allows to treat data dominated application
25with a few control for GAUT and control dominated application with a few data processing
26for UGH. This will enlarge the domain the HLS can cover.
27\end{objectif}
28%
29\begin{workpackage}
30\item The goal of this \ST is to integrate the UGH HLS tool to the COACH framework. It
31    consists of suppressing the C compiler and the SystemC and VHDL drivers and replacing
32    them by \xcoach and \xcoachplus drivers.
33    \begin{livrable}
34    \itemL{6}{12}{x}{\Stima}{UGH integration}{12:0:0}
35        The UGH software that is able to read \xcoach format.
36    \itemV{12}{18}{x}{\Supmc}{UGH integration}
37        The UGH software that is able to read \xcoach format and to write \xcoachplus format.
38    \itemL{18}{33}{x}{\Supmc}{UGH integration}{0:2:4.0}
39        Maintenance work of the UGH software.
40    \end{livrable}
41\item The goal of this \ST is to integrate the GAUT HLS tool to the COACH framework. It
42    consists of suppressing the C commpiler and the SystemC and VHDL drivers and replacing
43    them by \xcoach and \xcoachplus drivers.
44    \begin{livrable}
45    \itemV{6}{12}{x}{\Subs}{GAUT integration}
46        The GAUT software that is able to read \xcoach format.
47    \itemV{12}{18}{x}{\Subs}{GAUT integration}
48        The GAUT software that is able to read \xcoach format and to write \xcoachplus format.
49    \itemL{18}{33}{x}{\Subs}{GAUT integration}{0:0:0}
50        Maintenance work of the GAUT software.
51    \end{livrable}
52\item The goal of this \ST is to improve the UGH and GAUT HLS tools.
53    UGH and GAUT experimentations have shown respectively 2 and \mustbecompleted{FIXME:2}
54    usefull enhancements
55    \begin{livrable}
56    \itemL{18}{24}{x}{\Stima}{UGH enhancement 1}{0:9:0}
57        The UGH software whith support for treating automatically data dominated sections
58        included into a control dominated application.
59    \itemL{21}{27}{x}{\Stima}{UGH enhancement 2}{0:3:6}
60        The UGH software that is able to generate a micro-architecture without the
61        variable binding currently done by the designer.
62    \itemL{6}{18}{x}{\Subs}{GAUT enhancement 1}{0:0:0}
63        Release of the GAUT software that supports the control and data flow formal model.
64\mustbecompleted{FIXME:USB ca ne va pas avec l'intro de la tache, UGH n'a
65plus aucune utilite si ceci reste}
66    \itemL{18}{30}{x}{\Subs}{GAUT enhancement 2}{0:0:0}
67        Release of the GAUT software that supports the control and data flow formal model
68        and also supports new constraints and objectives defined in
69        \mustbecompleted{FIXME:USB utilise une macro svp: \ST1-1}
70        \mustbecompleted{FIXME:UBS: quel delivrable ??}.
71%   FIXME:USB redondant avec le delivrable "GAUT integration" ou alors
72%   c'est en enhancement et il faut le decrire.
73%    \item{VF}{30}{36}{x}{\Subs}{GAUT enhancement 3} Final release of the GAUT software
74    \end{livrable}
75\item In FPGA-SoC, the frequency is given by the processors and the BUS. The coprocessors
76    generated by HLS synthesis must respect this frequency. However, the HLS tools can not
77    guarantee that the micro-architectures they generate accurately respect this
78    frequency. This is especially the case when the target is a FPGA device, because the
79    delays are really known only after the RTL synthesis and that estimated delays used
80    by the HLS are very imprecize. The goal of this \ST is to provide a tool to adapt
81    the coprocessors frequency to the FPGA-SoC frequency after the coprocessor RTL
82    synthesis.
83    \begin{livrable}
84    \itemV{0}{12}{d}{\Supmc}{frequency calibration}
85        A document describing the set up of the coprocessor frequency calibration.
86    \itemV{12}{24}{x}{\Supmc}{frequency calibration}
87        A VHDL description of hardware added to the coprocessor to enable the calibration.
88    \itemL{24}{33}{x}{\Supmc}{frequency calibration}{2:.5:3.5}
89        The frequency calibration software consists of a driver in the FPGA-SoC operating
90        system and of a control software on a PC.
91    \end{livrable}
92\end{workpackage}
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