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2005 IEEE International Conference on Application-Specific Systems, Architecture Processors (ASAP'05)
Alleviating the Data Memory Bandwidth Bottleneck in Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays
Samos, Greece
July 23-July 25
ISBN: 0-7695-2407-9
Gregory Dimitroulakos, VLSI Design Laboratory, ECE Department, University of Patras, Patras, Greece
Michalis D. Galanis, VLSI Design Laboratory, ECE Department, University of Patras, Patras, Greece
Costas E. Goutis, VLSI Design Laboratory, ECE Department, University of Patras, Patras, Greece

It is widely known that parallel operation execution in multiprocessor systems generates a respective increase in memory accesses. Since the memory and bus subsystems provide a limited access bandwidth, the applications performance cannot be that high as the multiprocessor system capabilities promise. This is the case for the 2-Dimensional coarse-grained reconfigurable arrays for which a mapping methodology that aims in improving the mapped applications? performance by alleviating the data bandwidth bottleneck, is presented in this paper. This is achieved by exploiting the applications? data reuse opportunities both at the data dependence and source code level and the architecture?s foreground memory. The methodology considers a realistic 2-Dimensional coarsegrained reconfigurable architecture template, which can model the majority of the existing coarse-grained reconfigurable array architectures. The experimental results show a significant reduction in both execution time and memory accesses for two architecture scenarios that has been achieved by the application of the proposed methodology on a representative set of DSP applications.

Citation:
Gregory Dimitroulakos, Michalis D. Galanis, Costas E. Goutis, "Alleviating the Data Memory Bandwidth Bottleneck in Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays," asap, pp.161-168, 2005 IEEE International Conference on Application-Specific Systems, Architecture Processors (ASAP'05), 2005
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