parameter
value
range
explanation

Problem specification

input set size 4–16384 number of samples to sort (?)
data type fixed or floating point (?)
bits
4–32 bits
fixed point precision (?)

Parameters controlling implementation

architecture sorting network algorithm (?)
streaming width
  number of samples per cycle (?)
iterative reuse
  iterative or fully streaming (?)
BRAM budget   maximum # of BRAMs to utilize (-1 for no limit) (?)