ISOMER: integrated selection, partitioning, and placement methodology for reconfigurable architectures

  • Authors:
  • Rana Muhammad Bilal;Rehan Hafiz;Muhammad Shafique;Saad Shoaib;Asim Munawar;Jörg Henkel

  • Affiliations:
  • National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan;National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan;Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany;National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan;IBM Research Japan;Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Quality system design on dynamic partially reconfigurable platform needs exploration of a vast and multi-dimensional design space for (1) selection among implementation variants of hardware accelerators, (2) partitioning the reconfigurable fabric, and (3) their placement on the reconfigurable fabric partitions. This paper presents a novel methodology ISOMER for integrated solution of selection, partitioning and placement for performance optimization. Architecture under consideration is a general purpose processor coupled with reconfigurable fabric that can be partitioned in multi-sized partially reconfigurable bins. Our methodology determines performance-efficient partitioning and usage of reconfigurable fabric. Extensive evaluation illustrates that our methodology is scalable and outperforms state-of-the-art techniques for non-partially reconfigurable architectures.