Exploiting FPGA-aware merging of custom instructions for runtime reconfiguration

Runtime reconfiguration is a promising solution for reducing hardware cost in embedded systems, without compromising on performance. We present a framework that aims to increase the advantages of runtime reconfiguration on reconfigurable processors that support full or partial runtime reconfiguratio...

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Main Authors: Lam, Siew-Kei, Srikanthan, Thambipillai, Clarke, Christopher T.
其他作者: School of Computer Engineering
格式: Conference or Workshop Item
語言:English
出版: 2013
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在線閱讀:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/97946
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/12235
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機構: Nanyang Technological University
語言: English
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總結:Runtime reconfiguration is a promising solution for reducing hardware cost in embedded systems, without compromising on performance. We present a framework that aims to increase the advantages of runtime reconfiguration on reconfigurable processors that support full or partial runtime reconfiguration. The proposed framework incorporates a hierarchical loop partitioning strategy that leverages FPGA-aware merging of custom instructions to: 1) maximize the reconfigurable logic block utilization in each configuration, and 2) reduce the runtime reconfiguration overhead. Experimental results show that the proposed strategy leads to over 39% average reduction in runtime reconfiguration overhead for partial runtime reconfiguration. In addition, the proposed strategy leads to an average performance gain of over 32% and 34% for full and partial runtime reconfiguration respectively.