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Proceedings Article | 30 June 2005 Paper

Data-driven array architectures: a rebirth?

Joao Cardoso

Proceedings Volume 5837, (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.608799

KEYWORDS: Computer architecture, Data modeling, Computer programming, Curium, Computer programming languages, Data processing, Reconfigurable computing, Very large scale integration, Digital signal processing, Computing systems

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The von Neumann-style architectures have been tremendously well succeeded by taking advantage of the Moore’s law. It is now understood that, it will be very difficult to meet the supercomputing demands of the future computing systems with this style of microprocessor architectures. Most nowadays applications require high-performance for processing data streams. Being dataflow computing a natural paradigm to process data streams, architectures based on dataflow principles are emerging as a way to meet the supercomputing demands. Data-driven arrays, introduced in the 80’s, are examples of such architectures. They devised a scalable and effective fashion to directly support the dataflow model of computation and have been revived by a number of reconfigurable architectures (e.g., KressArray, WaveScalar, and XPP). Those coarse-grained reconfigurable architectures with dataflow semantics depict interesting achievements with respect to performance and programming methodologies, when compared to other computing platforms. This paper presents the most interesting data-driven array architectures. Trends and open issues related to a number of properties at architectural level and to compilation techniques are enumerated and discussed. A number of features are illustrated, especially the support for hardware virtualization, speculative configuration, and software pipelining. Examples using the PACT XPP reconfigurable array are shown. Those examples include the ADPCM decoder, from the MediaBench repository, and LeeDCT, an optimized DCT algorithm.

Proceedings Article | 30 June 2005 Paper

CHIADO: compilation of high-level computationally intensive algorithms to dynamically reconfigurable computing systems

Joao Cardoso

Proceedings Volume 5837, (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.608805

KEYWORDS: Reconfigurable computing, Java, Field programmable gate arrays, Computing systems, Profiling, Data modeling, Logic, Visualization, Computer programming languages, Computer programming

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Reconfigurable computing has already confirmed a significant potential for accelerating certain computing tasks. However, the most successful applications relied on user expertise to design a specific architecture implemented by the hardware structures of the reconfigurable computing device. Hence, one of the most challenging issues is to map, efficiently and automatically, computations (described in software programming languages) to reconfigurable computing devices. This paper presents CHIADO, a research project aiming a compiler framework to map efficiently software programs to reconfigurable computing platforms, especially the ones based on FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) devices. The framework is also intended to support research of new optimization techniques. The project, based on our previous work on compiling Java bytecodes to FPGAs, focuses on high-performance solutions, schemes to estimate the impact of some transformations supported by the compiler (partial/full loop unrolling), and schemes to take advantage of dynamic reconfiguration (e.g., temporal partitioning). This paper gives an overview about the CHIADO project, shows the framework, and enumerates the main project goals.

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