Hardware/Software Specialization Through Aspects

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2012

Authors

João M. P. Cardoso (Author) FEUP; Carvalho, T (Author) Other; Teixeira, J (Author) Other; Diniz, PC (Author) Other; Goncalves, F (Author) Other; Petrov, Z (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

Title: 2012 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMBEDDED COMPUTER SYSTEMS (SAMOS): ARCHITECTURES, MODELING AND SIMULATION

Pages: 260-267

International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems - Architectures, Modeling and Simulation (IC-SAMOS)

Samos, GREECE, JUL 16-19, 2012

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Authenticus ID: P-002-EBV

DOI: 10.1109/SAMOS.2012.6404183

Abstract (EN): LARA is a programming language being developed to complement application code in a host programming language with instrumentation code, for monitoring, logging, and debugging, user's knowledge about specific characteristics of the application, non-functional requirements, and compiler, mapping and synthesis strategies to guide/control design-flows, especially the ones used to map computations to FPGA-based systems. This paper shows how the aspect-oriented approach provided by LARA allows developers to specify complementary program information that can be used by LARA aware design-flows to promote customized FPGA-based software/hardware implementations. Program and compiler/mapping specialization take advantage of specific properties of applications to optimize and customize specific application modules and software/hardware implementations, e. g., according to usage contexts. We illustrate the concept using a hotspot function from a real-life, industrial, application. The results show the importance of program specialization in deriving hardware/software implementations with higher-performance.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 8