Near-Optimal Microprocessor and Accelerators Codesign with Latency and Throughput Constraints

  • Authors:
  • Angeliki Kritikakou;Francky Catthoor;George S. Athanasiou;Vasilios Kelefouras;Costas Goutis

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Patras;Katholieke Universiteit Leuven;University of Patras;University of Patras;University of Patras

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO)
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

A systematic methodology for near-optimal software/hardware codesign mapping onto an FPGA platform with microprocessor and HW accelerators is proposed. The mapping steps deal with the inter-organization, the foreground memory management, and the datapath mapping. A step is described by parameters and equations combined in a scalable template. Mapping decisions are propagated as design constraints to prune suboptimal options in next steps. Several performance-area Pareto points are produced by instantiating the parameters. To evaluate our methodology we map a real-time bio-imaging application and loop-dominated benchmarks.