CODACS prototype: CHIARA language and its compiler

Author

Verdoscia, Lorenzo ; Danelutto, Marco ; Esposito, Raffaele

Author_Institution

Inst. for High Performance Comput. & Networking, Nat. Res. Council, Napoli, Italy

fYear

2004

fDate

23-24 March 2004

Firstpage

864

Lastpage

870

Abstract

We present CHIARA, the programming language used to program CODACS (a general purpose dataflow architecture exploiting FPGA technology), and describe the compiling strategies leading from CHIARA programs to the CODACS dataflow graphs. CHIARA is a functional programming language based on Backus´FP. We designed both the language and the compiling tools in such a way that CHIARA programs can be efficiently compiled and run onto the overall architecture and CODACS platform-processors being, for the latter, also the low-level (assembly) programming language. Some preliminary experimental results are discussed, demonstrating that the CHIARA approach to CODACS programming is feasible and promising.

Keywords

data flow computing; data flow graphs; field programmable gate arrays; functional languages; functional programming; parallel architectures; program compilers; reconfigurable architectures; Backus FP; CHIARA program; CODACS prototype; FPGA technology; compiler; dataflow computing; dataflow graph; field programmable gate array; functional programming language; low-level assembly programming language; platform-processor; reconfigurable parallel architecture; Assembly; Computer architecture; Computer languages; Field programmable gate arrays; Functional programming; Hardware; High performance computing; Parallel processing; Program processors; Prototypes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems Workshops, 2004. Proceedings. 24th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2087-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDCSW.2004.1284134

Filename

1284134