Tuning instruction customisation for reconfigurable system-on-chip

Author

Ho, ChunHok ; Luk, Wayne ; Szefer, Jakub M. ; Lee, Ruby B.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput., Imperial Coll. London, London, UK

fYear

2009

fDate

9-11 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

61

Lastpage

64

Abstract

This paper describes four techniques for tuning instruction customisation for reconfigurable system-on-chip (SoC) devices. These techniques involve tuning custom instruction granularity, tuning custom instruction hardware, tuning based on run-time information, and instrumentation for tuning analysis. The proposed approach has been used in deriving custom instructions for advanced bit manipulation applications for the Mi-croBlaze processor. We show that for a transfer coding application, custom instructions with an increase of 23% in area can improve performance by 13 times.

Keywords

system-on-chip; MicroBlaze processor; advanced bit manipulation; custom instruction granularity; custom instruction hardware; instruction customisation; reconfigurable system-on-chip; run-time information; transfer coding; tuning analysis; Computer aided instruction; Costs; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Information analysis; Instruments; Microprocessors; Runtime; Streaming media; System-on-a-chip;

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.2009.5398096

Filename

5398096