This book describes an alternative approach to direct mapping loops described in high-level languages onto FPGAs. Different from other approaches, this technique does not inherit from software pipelining techniques. The control is distributed over operations, thus a finite state machine is not necessary to control the order of operations, allowing efficient hardware implementations. The specification of a hardware block is done by means of LALP, a domain specific language specially designed to help the application of the techniques. While the language syntax resembles C, it contains certain...