Superpipelined Control and Data Path Synthesis

This paper describes a superpipelined control and data path synthesis system. The system can 1) handle pipelined modules in the data path, 2) perform func-tional pipelining of the datapath and 3) schedule the datapath using a pipelined controller. Three control styles- serial, parallel and pipelined, are implemented. The system automatically picks one depending on the data path, the clock frequency, and the functional unit and control path delays. The results show that using a modifiable clock cycle time and a parameterized con-trol style can significantly improve the throughput of high performance systems