Hardware pipelining of repetitive patterns in processor instruction traces

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2013

Authors

João Bispo (Author) FEUP; João M. P. Cardoso (Author) FEUP; Monteiro, J (Author) Other

Journal

Title: Journal of Integrated Circuits and Systems

Vol. 8

Pages: 22-31

ISSN: 1807-1953

Publisher: Springer Nature

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Authenticus ID: P-008-EZH

Abstract (EN): Dynamic partitioning is a promising technique where computations are transparently moved from a General Purpose Processor (GPP) to a coprocessor during application execution. To be effective, the mapping of computations to the coprocessor needs to consider aggressive optimizations. One of the mapping optimizations is loop pipelining, a technique extensively studied and known to allow substantial performance improvements. This paper describes a technique for pipelining Megablocks, a type of runtime loop developed for dynamic partitioning. The technique transforms the body of Mega-blocks into an acyclic dataflow graph which can be fully pipe-lined and is based on the atomic execution of loop iterations. For a set of 9 benchmarks without memory operations, we generated pipelined hardware versions of the loops and esti-mate that the presented loop pipelining technique increases the average speedup of non-pipelined coprocessor accelerated designs from 1.6× to 2.2×. For a larger set of 61 benchmarks which include memory operations, we estimate through simulation a speedup increase from 2.5× to 5.6× with this technique.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific