Title :
An automated algorithm to generate stream programs
Author :
Gao, Lei ; Mittal, Gaurav ; Zaretsky, David ; Schonfeld, Dan ; Banerjee, Prith
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Abstract :
With the proliferation of reconfigurable systems and flexible memory architectures, there has been intense interest in stream systems. While the existing stream systems require the programs to be written using special models, this paper demonstrates an approach to automatically generate stream programs from existing applications written for non-stream scalar processors. As a part of this approach, we provide a new comparison methodology and an algorithm to automatically generate stream descriptions. A second algorithm identifies processing kernels that can be pipelined. We demonstrate our results on an FPGA based platform.
Keywords :
field programmable gate arrays; memory architecture; pipeline processing; reconfigurable architectures; FPGA based platform; automated algorithm; flexible memory architectures; reconfigurable systems; stream program generation; Encoding; Field programmable gate arrays; Graphics; Kernel; Memory architecture; Parallel processing; Programming profession; Rendering (computer graphics); Shape; Streaming media;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 2009. ISCAS 2009. IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Taipei
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3827-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3828-0
DOI :
10.1109/ISCAS.2009.5118053