Title :
Code Compressor and Decompressor for Ultra Large Instruction Width Coarse-Grain Reconfigurable Systems
Author :
Aslam, Nazish ; Milward, Mark ; Nousias, Ioannis ; Arslan, Tughrul ; Erdogan, Ahmet
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Syst. Level Integration, Edinburgh
Abstract :
This paper presents a code compression and on-the-fly decompression scheme suitable for coarse-grain reconfigurable technologies. A novel unit-grouping dictionary based compression technique utilizing special control bits to increase the effective storage capacity of the dictionaries is implemented and compared against an existing suitable technique for an example reconfigurable system. Compressions ratios in the range of 40%-59% are recorded with new scheme.
Keywords :
data compression; storage management; code compressor; on-the-fly decompression; storage capacity; ultra large instruction width coarse-grain reconfigurable systems; unit-grouping dictionary; Computer aided instruction; Computer architecture; Control systems; Decoding; Dictionaries; Hardware; Parallel processing; Payloads; Reconfigurable architectures; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, 2007. FCCM 2007. 15th Annual IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Napa, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-2940-0
DOI :
10.1109/FCCM.2007.28