Preliminary work on a mechanism for testing a customized architecture
Document typeConference report
Date issued2009-07
Rights accessOpen Access
Abstract
Hardware customization for scientific applications has shown a big potential for reducing power consumption and increasing performance. In particular, the automatic generation of ISA extensions for General-Purpose Processors (GPPs) to accelerate domain-specific applications is an active field of research. Those domain-specific customized processors are mostly evaluated in simulation environments due to technical and programmability issues while using real hardware. There is no automatic mechanism to test ISA extensions in a real hardware environment. In this paper we present a toolchain that can automatically identify
candidate parts of the code suitable for acceleration to test them in a reconfigurable hardware.
We validate our toolchain using a bioinformatic application, ClustalW, obtaining an overall speed-up over 2x.
CitationGonzález, C. [et al.]. Preliminary work on a mechanism for testing a customized architecture. A: International Summer School on Advanced Computer Architecture and Compilation for Embedded Systems. "5th Advanced Computer Architecture and Compilation for Embedded Systems". 2009.
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