Improving Performance of Embedded Processors with a High-Performance Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Data-Path

Author

Galanis, Michalis D. ; Dimitroulakos, Gregory ; Goutis, Costas E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Fatras Univ.

fYear

2006

fDate

16-19 May 2006

Firstpage

105

Lastpage

108

Abstract

An embedded system that extends microprocessor cores with a high-performance coarse-grained reconfigurable data-path is introduced. The data-path is composed by computational resources able to realize complex operations which aid in improving the performance of time critical application parts, called kernels. A compilation flow is defined for mapping high-level software descriptions to the microprocessor system. The kernel code is mapped using a properly developed mapping algorithm for the reconfigurable data-path. Extensive exploration is performed by mapping four real-life applications on three different instances of the system. Important overall application speedups have been reported that range from 1.70 to 3.68 relative to an all-processor execution

Keywords

embedded systems; microcomputers; reconfigurable architectures; coarse-grained reconfigurable data-path; compilation flow; embedded processors; kernel code; mapping algorithm; mapping high-level software descriptions; microprocessor system; time critical application parts; Application software; Embedded computing; Embedded system; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; High performance computing; Kernel; Microprocessors; Programmable logic arrays; Reconfigurable logic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrotechnical Conference, 2006. MELECON 2006. IEEE Mediterranean

Conference_Location

Malaga

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0087-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MELCON.2006.1653047

Filename

1653047