MatchLib Connections is a SystemC library implementing latency-insensitive channels for use by High-Level synthesis tools.
Documentation on the Connections latency-insensitive channel implementation can be found in the Connections Guide.
Connections has been used as a component of the MatchLib hardware component library. For more documentation about compiling and running Connections components, see the MatchLib documentation.
Connections was originally part of the MatchLib project of NVIDIA Research.
Contributors to the initial open-source release (alphabetical): Jason Clemons, Christopher Fletcher, Davide Giri, Ben Keller, Brucek Khailany, Alicia Klinefelter, Evgeni Krimer, Hyoukjun Kwon, Ziyun Li, Michael Pellauer, Nathaniel Pinckney, Antonio Puglielli, Sophia Shao, Shreesha Srinath, Gopalakrishnan Srinivasan, Christopher Torng, Rangharajan Venkatesan, Sam Xi
Connections's back annotation feature is dependent on RapidJSON released under the MIT License.
If used for research, please cite the DAC paper:
Brucek Khailany, Evgeni Krimer, Rangharajan Venkatesan, Jason Clemons, Joel S. Emer, Matthew Fojtik, Alicia Klinefelter, Michael Pellauer, Nathaniel Pinckney, Yakun Sophia Shao, Shreesha Srinath, Christopher Torng, Sam (Likun) Xi, Yanqing Zhang, and Brian Zimmer, "A modular digital VLSI flow for high-productivity SoC design," in Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, June 2018.