The input-aware dynamic adaptation of area and performance for reconfigurable accelerator

  • Authors:
  • Like Yan;Gang Wang;Tianzhou Chen

  • Affiliations:
  • ZJU-Intel Technology Center, College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China;ZJU-Intel Technology Center, College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China;ZJU-Intel Technology Center, College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the ACM/SIGDA international symposium on Field programmable gate arrays
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Attaching reconfigurable loop accelerator to a processor is a promising way to improve the performance and efficiency of the system. It's usually to unroll a loop to increase the parallelism of a loop accelerator. While the higher degree a loop is unrolled, the more reconfigurable area is needed. However, an observation is that the utilization of the loop accelerator is relative to the input. Focusing on the area and performance balance, a dynamically adaptive reconfigurable accelerator framework is proposed on CPU/RA architecture in the paper. Firstly, the inputs are classified into certain predefined types. At run-time the input of the application will be monitored and then the accelerator will be reconfigured to accomplish the area-performance dynamic adaption. An accelerator selection model is also presented to choose an accelerator at run-time according to the predefined input types. And a bzip2 case study is presented, the experimental results demonstrated the feasibility of the approach, and shown that up to 93.6% reconfigurable area is saved at a cost of 1.6% performance lost in a best case.