Compilation and Temporal Partitioning for a Coarse-grain Reconfigurable Architecture

• Type: Chapter or Part of a Book
• Date: 2005

Authors

João M. P. Cardoso (Author) FEUP; Markus Weinhardt (Author) Other

Book

Title: New Algorithms, Architectures and Applications for Reconfigurable Computing

Pages: 105-115

ISBN: 978-1-4020-3127-4

Publisher: Springer

Indexing

Scopus - 3 Citations

Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-008-Z4R

DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3128-9_9

Abstract (EN): The eXtreme Processing Platform (XPP) is a coarse-grained dynamically reconfigurable architecture. Its advanced reconfiguration features make feasible the configure-execute paradigm, the natural paradigm of dynamically reconfigurable computing. This chapter presents a compiler aiming to program the XPP using a subset of the C language. The compiler, apart from mapping the computational structures onto the available resources on the device, splits the program in temporal sections when it needs more resources than the physically available. In addition, since the execution of the computational structures in a configuration needs at least two stages (e.g., configuring and computing), a scheme to split the program such that the reconfiguration overheads are minimized, taking advantage of the overlapping of the execution stages on different configurations is presented.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific