Abstract: A behavioral synthesis apparatus includes a determination unit that determines whether or not a loop description should be converted into a pipeline, and a synthesis unit that performs behavioral synthesis while setting a stricter delay constraint for a loop description that is converted into a pipeline than a loop description that is not converted into a pipeline.

Abstract: A behavioral synthesis apparatus includes a determination unit that determines whether or not a loop description should be converted into a pipeline, and a synthesis unit that performs behavioral synthesis while setting a stricter delay constraint for a loop description that is converted into a pipeline than a loop description that is not converted into a pipeline.

Abstract: A behavioral synthesis apparatus includes a determination unit that determines whether or not a loop description should be converted into a pipeline, and a synthesis unit that performs behavioral synthesis while setting a stricter delay constraint for a loop description that is converted into a pipeline than a loop description that is not converted into a pipeline.

Abstract: A behavioral synthesis device include a profile unit that implements an electronic circuit at a reconfigurable hardware based on a first register transfer level description generated by a behavioral synthesis unit, actuates the implemented electronic circuit, and causes the electric circuit to output profile information from the actuated electronic circuit; and an optimizer that generates optimization information for optimizing a behavioral synthesis carried out by the behavioral synthesis unit based on the profile information that the profile unit causes the electric circuit to output, and outputs the generated optimization information to the behavioral synthesis unit, wherein the behavioral synthesis unit acquires a first behavioral level description, and subjects the acquired first behavioral level description to behavioral synthesis and generates the second register transfer level description based on the optimization information outputted by the optimizer.

Abstract: A behavioral synthesis apparatus includes a acquisition unit, a scheduling unit and a generation unit. The acquisition unit acquires a behavioral level description describing an operation of a semiconductor integrated circuit. The scheduling unit separates the acquired behavioral level description into N stage descriptions, and makes a schedule in such a way that input/output operations and computations among the N stage descriptions are pipelined. The generation unit generates a register transfer level description based on the N stage descriptions and a result of scheduling performed by the scheduling unit in such a way as to form stage circuits respectively corresponding to the N stage descriptions and a state control circuit which controls possible 2N?1 stage control states of the semiconductor integrated circuit. The generation unit generates the register transfer level description in such a way as to inhibit the operation of a stage circuit which need not be operated.

Abstract: A multiplicity of processor elements that are arranged in rows and columns individually execute data processing in accordance with instruction codes that are individually set as data and supply event data as output. A state control unit is composed of a plurality of units that successively switch the instruction codes of the multiplicity of processor elements in accordance with a computer program and the event data, these state control units communicating with each other to realize linked operation as necessary. An event distributing means distributes event data to this plurality of state control units that intercommunicate to realize linked operation, whereby the plurality of state control units can realize linked operation to control a large-scale state transition.

Abstract: Disclosed is an impact detection system including: an optical fiber including a plurality of sensor sections to reflect light, a wavelength band of the reflected light vibrates depending on an elastic wave propagating through a subject to be inspected; a light source to input light into the optical fiber; optical filters each connected to an output terminal of the optical fiber; and an arithmetic processing unit to detect the impact from output values of sensor sections, wherein the wavelength bands of the sensor sections in the optical fiber are distributed such that the vibration bands caused by the impact to be detected do not overlap with each other, and a pass band of the optical filter corresponding to one of the sensor sections is distributed in the vibration band caused by the detection object, and is distributed in both sides of a center of the wavelength band of the one sensor section.

Abstract: A behavioral synthesis apparatus includes a acquisition unit, a scheduling unit and a generation unit. The acquisition unit acquires a behavioral level description describing an operation of a semiconductor integrated circuit. The scheduling unit separates the acquired behavioral level description into N stage descriptions, and makes a schedule in such a way that input/output operations and computations among the N stage descriptions are pipelined. The generation unit generates a register transfer level description based on the N stage descriptions and a result of scheduling performed by the scheduling unit in such a way as to form stage circuits respectively corresponding to the N stage descriptions and a state control circuit which controls possible 2N?1 stage control states of the semiconductor integrated circuit. The generation unit generates the register transfer level description in such a way as to inhibit the operation of a stage circuit which need not be operated.

Abstract: Disclosed an impact detection system including: three or more optical fiber sensors disposed respectively in different positions, the sensors not being in alignment with one another, in which the sensors each includes a core portion to have a grating portion formed therein, the grating portion has a plurality of gratings; light source; two or more optical filters having different pass bands to one another to an output light of one of the optical fiber sensors; and an arithmetic processing apparatus to perform arithmetic processing of output values of the three or more optical fiber sensors through the optical filters so as to specify a position on the subject where an impact is loaded, the output values being obtained when the impact is loaded on the subject.

Abstract: A behavioral synthesis device include a profile unit that implements an electronic circuit at a reconfigurable hardware based on a first register transfer level description generated by a behavioral synthesis unit, actuates the implemented electronic circuit, and causes the electric circuit to output profile information from the actuated electronic circuit; and an optimizer that generates optimization information for optimizing a behavioral synthesis carried out by the behavioral synthesis unit based on the profile information that the profile unit causes the electric circuit to output, and outputs the generated optimization information to the behavioral synthesis unit, wherein the behavioral synthesis unit acquires a first behavioral level description, and subjects the acquired first behavioral level description to behavioral synthesis and generates the second register transfer level description based on the optimization information outputted by the optimizer.

Abstract: A multiplicity of processor elements, which both individually execute data processing in accordance with instruction codes that have been set as data and for which mutual connection relations are switch-controlled, are arranged in matrix form, and the instruction codes of this multiplicity of processor elements are successively switched by a state control unit. The state control units are composed of a plurality of units that intercommunicate to realize linked operation, and the multiplicity of processor elements is divided into a number of element areas that corresponds to the number of state control units. The plurality of state control units are arranged for each of the plurality of element areas and are connected to the processor elements, whereby the plurality of state control units can individually control a plurality of small-scale state transitions, or the plurality of state control units can cooperate to control a single large-scale state transition.

Abstract: Disclosed an impact detection system including: three or more optical fiber sensors disposed respectively in different positions, the sensors not being in alignment with one another, in which the sensors each includes a core portion to have a grating portion formed therein, the grating portion has a plurality of gratings; light source; two or more optical filters having different pass bands to one another to an output light of one of the optical fiber sensors; and an arithmetic processing apparatus to perform arithmetic processing of output values of the three or more optical fiber sensors through the optical filters so as to specify a position on the subject where an impact is loaded, the output values being obtained when the impact is loaded on the subject.

Abstract: Disclosed is an impact detection system including: an optical fiber including a plurality of sensor sections to reflect light, a wavelength band of the reflected light vibrates depending on an elastic wave propagating through a subject to be inspected; a light source to input light into the optical fiber; optical filters each connected to an output terminal of the optical fiber; and an arithmetic processing unit to detect the impact from output values of sensor sections, wherein the wavelength bands of the sensor sections in the optical fiber are distributed such that the vibration bands caused by the impact to be detected do not overlap with each other, and a pass band of the optical filter corresponding to one of the sensor sections is distributed in the vibration band caused by the detection object, and is distributed in both sides of a center of the wavelength band of the one sensor section.

Abstract: The liveness information that is obtained from behavioral synthesis and that shows the periods during which variables described in a behavioral level description have valid values is used for processing at a logic synthesizing stage, placement and routing stage, debugging stage, writing stage of circuit information to a reconfigurable device, or the like, so as to use storage elements that are to be allocated to the variables described in the behavioral level description in common and to achieve optimization such as minimizing data paths and the like. Also in a debugger and in a writing device for writing circuit information, the aforementioned liveness information is used to execute a task of not displaying invalid variables, a task of reducing the amount of information to be saved to an external memory, etc.

Abstract: An object code for sequentially switching contexts of processing circuits arrayed in a matrix in a parallel operation apparatus is generated from a general source code descriptive of operation of the parallel operation apparatus. A Data Flow Graph (DFG) is generated from the source code descriptive of operation of the parallel operation apparatus according to limiting conditions, registered in advance, representing a physical structure, etc. of the parallel operation apparatus, and scheduled in a Control Data Flow Graph (CDFG). An Register Transfer Level (RTL) description is generated from the CDFG, converting a finite-state machine into an object code and converting a data path into a net list. An object code of the processing circuits is generated in each context from the net list.

Abstract: In an array-type processor in which a multiplicity of processor elements, which each execute data processing in accordance with instruction codes in which data are individually set, are arranged in rows and columns, and in which state control units cause successive transitions of the operating states of this multiplicity of processor elements for each operating cycle by means of contexts that are make up by instruction codes, a plurality of element areas are respectively connected to an equal number of state control units, and state control units that correspond to a prescribed number of operating states that are set to one context temporarily halt the operation of element areas to which the state control unit is connected during operating cycle in which operating states do not occur.

Abstract: A multiplicity of processor elements that are arranged in rows and columns individually execute data processing in accordance with instruction codes that are individually set as data and supply event data as output. A state control unit is composed of a plurality of units that successively switch the instruction codes of the multiplicity of processor elements in accordance with a computer program and the event data, these state control units communicating with each other to realize linked operation as necessary. An event distributing means distributes event data to this plurality of state control units that intercommunicate to realize linked operation, whereby the plurality of state control units can realize linked operation to control a large-scale state transition.

Abstract: A multiplicity of processor elements, which both individually execute data processing in accordance with instruction codes that have been set as data and for which mutual connection relations are switch-controlled, are arranged in matrix form, and the instruction codes of this multiplicity of processor elements are successively switched by a state control unit. The state control units are composed of a plurality of units that intercommunicate to realize linked operation, and the multiplicity of processor elements is divided into a number of element areas that corresponds to the number of state control units. The plurality of state control units are arranged for each of the plurality of element areas and are connected to the processor elements, whereby the plurality of state control units can individually control a plurality of small-scale state transitions, or the plurality of state control units can cooperate to control a single large-scale state transition.

Abstract: A multiplicity of processor elements, which individually execute data processing in accordance with instruction codes that are individually set and for which the connection relation between processor elements is switch-controlled, are arranged in a matrix; and the instruction codes of the multiplicity of processor elements are successively switched by a state control unit. The state control unit is composed of a plurality of units that intercommunicate to realize linked operation, the multiplicity of processor elements is divided into a plurality of element groups, and the plurality of state control units and the plurality of element groups are individually connected, whereby a plurality of small-scale state transitions can be individually controlled by the state control units, or a single large-scale state transition can be controlled through the cooperation of the plurality of state control units.

Abstract: At least one of a plurality of data processors of a data processing system is an array-type processor, and the data processing of this array-type processor and the other data processors is effectively linked. The array-type processor and other data processors, which process the process data in accordance with event data and issue event data in accordance with this data processing, communicate to each other at least a portion of the process data and at least a portion of the event data and thus link the data processing.