A Hierarchical Multiprocessor Scheduling System for DSP Applications

  • Authors:
  • Jose Luis Pino;Edward A. Lee;Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ASILOMAR '95 Proceedings of the 29th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers (2-Volume Set)
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

This paper discusses a hierarchical scheduling framework which reduces the complexity of scheduling synchronous datajow (SDF) graphs onto multiple processors. The core of this framework is a clustering algorithm that decreases the number of nodes before expanding the SDF graph into a precedence directed acyclic graph (DAG). The internals of the clusters are then scheduled with uniprocessor SDF schedulers which can optimize for memory usage. The clusten' ng is done in such a manner as to leave ample parallelism exposed for the multiprocessor scheduler. We have developed the SDF composition theorem for testing if a clustering step is valid. The advantages of this framework are demonstrated with several practical, real-time examples.