Compaan: deriving process networks from Matlab for embedded signal processing architectures
CODES '00 Proceedings of the eighth international workshop on Hardware/software codesign
Communicating sequential processes
Communications of the ACM
Algorithmic transformation techniques for efficient exploration of alternative application instances
Proceedings of the tenth international symposium on Hardware/software codesign
Taming the IXP network processor
PLDI '03 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2003 conference on Programming language design and implementation
System Design Using Kahn Process Networks: The Compaan/Laura Approach
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe - Volume 1
Translating affine nested-loop programs to process networks
Proceedings of the 2004 international conference on Compilers, architecture, and synthesis for embedded systems
Automatic multithreading and multiprocessing of C programs for IXP
Proceedings of the tenth ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Principles and practice of parallel programming
Exploiting Coarse-Grained Parallelism to Accelerate Protein Motif Finding with a Network Processor
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques
Multi-processor system design with ESPAM
CODES+ISSS '06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Hardware/software codesign and system synthesis
Realizing FIFO Communication When Mapping Kahn Process Networks onto the Cell
SAMOS '09 Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation
CODES/ISSS '10 Proceedings of the eighth IEEE/ACM/IFIP international conference on Hardware/software codesign and system synthesis
Communication-aware mapping of KPN applications onto heterogeneous MPSoCs
Proceedings of the 49th Annual Design Automation Conference
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When studying the IXP Network processor architecture from Intel, we found quite some interesting aspects that make the IXP attractive for stream-based applications. The architecture is highly optimized for streaming data, albeit in the form of internet packets. Furthermore, the architecture has Gigabit Ethernet connectors for handling incoming and outgoing traffic and can process this data at real-time using dedicated microengines. In this paper, we try to answer three questions; 1) Can we use the IXP architecture for stream-based applications? 2) can we map applications written as a KPN onto an IXP? 3) can we integrate the generation of KPNs using the Compaan compiler with a tool flow that maps the KPN to an IXP, thereby make the programming of IXP much simpler? As will be shown, all three steps can be performed and we show that we can map automatically two non-internet stream-based applications (QR and DWT) onto the IXP.