A Library Development Framework for a Coarse Grain Reconfigurable Architecture

Author

Malik, Omer ; Hemani, Ahmed ; Shami, Muhammad Ali

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Syst., R. Inst. of Technol., Stockholm, Sweden

fYear

2011

fDate

2-7 Jan. 2011

Firstpage

153

Lastpage

158

Abstract

A framework for efficiently capturing the rich micro architectural space of a substantial Matlab like library of DSP functions for a regular Coarse Grain Reconfigurable Architecture (CGRA) fabric is proposed. A subset of C has been proposed to model the DSP functions and an automatic tool to generate the configware for the CGRA fabric developed. A method to estimate the average energy of such functions is reported with error margin of less than 3%. Such a framework is proposed as the basis for raising the abstraction to automate synthesis of the entire physical layers.

Keywords

C language; digital signal processing chips; program compilers; reconfigurable architectures; C language; DSP functions; Matlab like library; coarse grain reconfigurable architecture; configware; library development framework; system-level synthesis; Delay; Digital signal processing; Fabrics; Finite impulse response filter; Generators; Libraries; Resource management; CGRA; DSP library; Symbolic Assembler; System-level Synthesis; high-level energy estimation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

VLSI Design (VLSI Design), 2011 24th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chennai

ISSN

1063-9667

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-327-8

Electronic_ISBN

1063-9667

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VLSID.2011.54

Filename

5718794