DocumentCode :
626804
Title :
39.9 GOPs/watt multi-mode CGRA accelerator for a multi-standard basestation
Author :
Farahini, Nasim ; Shuo Li ; Tajammul, Muhammad Adeel ; Shami, Muhammad Ali ; Guo Chen ; Hemani, Ahmed ; Wei Ye
Author_Institution :
Sch. of ICT, Dept. of Electron. Syst., Kungliga Tek. Hogskolan (KTH), Kista, Sweden
fYear :
2013
fDate :
19-23 May 2013
Firstpage :
1448
Lastpage :
1451
Abstract :
This paper presents an industrial case study of using a Coarse Grain Reconfigurable Architecture (CGRA) for a multi-mode accelerator for two kernels: FFT for the LTE standard and the Correlation Pool for the UMTS standard to be executed in a mutually exclusive manner. The CGRA multi-mode accelerator achieved computational efficiency of 39.94 GOPS/watt (OP is multiply-add) and silicon efficiency of 56.20 GOPS/mm2. By analyzing the code and inferring the unused features of the fully programmable solution, an in-house developed tool was used to automatically customize the design to run just the two kernels and the two efficiency metrics improved to 49.05 GOPS/watt and 107.57 GOPS/mm2. Corresponding numbers for the ASIC implementation are 63.84 GOPS/watt and 90.91 GOPS/mm2. Though the ASIC´s silicon and computational efficiency numbers are slightly better, the engineering efficiency of the pre-verified/characterized CGRA solution is at least 10X better than the ASIC solution.
Keywords :
3G mobile communication; Long Term Evolution; application specific integrated circuits; elemental semiconductors; fast Fourier transforms; reconfigurable architectures; silicon; ASIC implementation; FFT; LTE standard; UMTS standard; coarse grain reconfigurable architecture; computational efficiency; correlation pool; engineering efficiency; multimode CGRA accelerator; multistandard base station; pre-verified-characterized CGRA solution; silicon efficiency; Application specific integrated circuits; Computational efficiency; Computer architecture; Correlation; Kernel; Registers; Silicon;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2013 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
ISSN :
0271-4302
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5760-9
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ISCAS.2013.6572129
Filename :
6572129
Link To Document :
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