Proceedings of the 15th international symposium on System Synthesis (ISSS '02)
A Symbolic Approach for the Combined Solution of Scheduling and Allocation
Kyoto, Japan
October 02-October 04
ISBN: 1-58113-576-9
Scheduling is widely recognized as a very important step in high-level synthesis. Nevertheless, it is usually done without taking into account the effects on the actual hardware implementation. This paper presents an efficient symbolic technique to concurrently integrate operation scheduling and resource allocation. The technique inherits all the features of "standard" BDD-based control dominated scheduling, including resource-constraining, speculation and pruning. In addition, it introduces an efficient way of encoding allocation information within a symbolic scheduling automaton with a two-folded target. Firstly, it finds a minimum cost allocation of operation resources satisfying a given schedule. Secondly, it optimizes the amount of registers required to store intermediate results of operations. Theory and algorithms are developed and presented. Experimental results on a well known set of benchmarks show the potentiality of the approach.
Index Terms:
BDD, allocation, automata, high-level synthesis, scheduling
Citation:
Luciano Lavagno, Mihai Lazarescu, Stefano Quer, Sergio Nocco, Claudio Passerone, Gianpiero Cabodi, "A Symbolic Approach for the Combined Solution of Scheduling and Allocation," isss, pp.237-242, Proceedings of the 15th international symposium on System Synthesis (ISSS '02), 2002