Automatic synthesis of processor arrays with local memories on FPGAs

In this paper, we present an automatic synthesis framework to map loop nests to processor arrays with local memories on FPGAs. An affine transformation approach is firstly proposed to address space-time mapping problem. Then a data-driven architecture model is introduced to enable automatic generation of processor arrays by extracting this data-driven architecture model from transformed loop nests. Some techniques including memory allocation, communication generation and control generation are presented. Synthesizable RTL codes can be easily generated from the architecture model built by these techniques. A preliminary synthesis tool is implemented based on PLUTO, an automatic polyhedral source-to-source transformation and parallelization framework.