CONES: A System for Automated Synthesis of VLSI and Programmable Logic from Behavioral Models

This paper describes CONES, an automated synthesis system that generates general sequential logic from behavioral models written in 'C', then implements the resultant logic in the form of both VLSI structures (standard cell and Programmable Logic Array) and Programmable Logic Device (PLD) based circuit packs. CONES has been semi-custom VLSI devices and production circuit packs. In this paper we present an overview of the CONES system and the results of its application to four production designs.