Heterogeneous multi-core architectures with dynamically reconfigurable processors for WiMAX transmitter

Author

Han, Wei ; Yi, Ying ; Zhao, Xin ; Muir, Mark ; Arslan, Tughrul ; Erdogan, Ahmet T.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

fYear

2009

fDate

9-11 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

97

Lastpage

100

Abstract

Through tailoring individual core to best fit dedicated applications, heterogeneous multi-core architectures can maximise performance while mitigating area costs and power consumption. This paper introduces heterogeneous multi-core architectures using coarse-grained dynamically reconfigurable processors. The multi-core system has been tailored for the performance intensive WiMAX transmitter. An exploration algorithm is proposed to search the design space for multi-core systems to find suitable solutions under specific system and performance constraints.

Keywords

WiMax; microprocessor chips; radio transmitters; reconfigurable architectures; WiMAX transmitter; coarse-grained dynamically reconfigurable processors; heterogeneous multicore architectures; multicore systems; power consumption; Algorithm design and analysis; Computer architecture; Costs; Design methodology; Partitioning algorithms; Silicon; Space exploration; Throughput; Transmitters; WiMAX;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

SOC Conference, 2009. SOCC 2009. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Belfast

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4940-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4941-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SOCCON.2009.5398085

Filename

5398085