Stratus: Free design of highly parametrized VLSI modules interoperable with commercial tools

Stratus is an open-source language based upon Python dedicated to the generation of VLSI modules. It allows design reuse, by providing a virtual library of configurable IP blocks. It provides also optimization techniques that can be applied during datapath synthesis. In this paper, we present how Stratus provides a programming framework allowing fast prototyping of parametrized Digital Signal Processing applications, ASIC or FPGA-targeted.

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