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18th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'04) - Workshop 3
Embedded Software Integration for Coarse-Grain Reconfigurable Systems
Santa Fe, New Mexico
April 26-April 30
ISBN: 0-7695-2132-0
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Patrick Schaumont, Kazuo Sakiyama, Alireza Hodjat, Ingrid Verbauwhede, "Embedded Software Integration for Coarse-Grain Reconfigurable Systems," Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, International, vol. 4, pp. 137, 18th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'04) - Workshop 3, 2004.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/IPDPS.2004.1303110,
author = {Patrick Schaumont and Kazuo Sakiyama and Alireza Hodjat and Ingrid Verbauwhede},
title = {Embedded Software Integration for Coarse-Grain Reconfigurable Systems},
journal ={Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, International},
volume = {4},
year = {2004},
isbn = {0-7695-2132-0},
pages = {137},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/IPDPS.2004.1303110},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Patrick Schaumont, University of California at Los Angeles
Kazuo Sakiyama, University of California at Los Angeles
Alireza Hodjat, University of California at Los Angeles
Ingrid Verbauwhede, University of California at Los Angeles

Coarse-grain reconfigurable systems offer high performance and energy-efficiency, provided an efficient run-time reconfiguration mechanism is available. Using an embedded software vantage point, we define three levels of reconfigurability for such systems, each with a different degree of coupling between embedded software and reconfigurable hardware. We classify reconfigurable systems starting with tightly-coupled coprocessors and evolving to processor networks. This results in a gradual increase of energy-efficiency when compared to software-only systems, at the cost of increasing programming complexity.

Using several sample applications including signal-, crypto-, and network-processing acceleration units, we demonstrate energy-efficiency improvements of 12 times over software for tightly-coupled systems up to 84 times for network-on-chip systems.

Citation:
Patrick Schaumont, Kazuo Sakiyama, Alireza Hodjat, Ingrid Verbauwhede, "Embedded Software Integration for Coarse-Grain Reconfigurable Systems," ipdps, vol. 4, pp.137, 18th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'04) - Workshop 3, 2004
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