Shared reconfigurable fabric for multi-core customization | Zendy

Liang Chen | Zendy; Tulika Mitra | Zendy

AI Assistant Blog Pricing

Home ZAIA Blog

Open Access

Shared reconfigurable fabric for multi-core customization

Author(s) -

Liang Chen,

Tulika Mitra

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

proceedings of the 34th design automation conference

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Conference proceedings

DOI - 10.1145/2024724.2024910

Subject(s) - control reconfiguration , computer science , personalization , flexibility (engineering) , speedup , exploit , multi core processor , computer architecture , core (optical fiber) , embedded system , architecture , set (abstract data type) , distributed computing , parallel computing , art , telecommunications , statistics , mathematics , computer security , world wide web , programming language , visual arts

Processor customization in the form of application specific instructions can provide significant power and performance boost to an embedded application while maintaining high flexibility. The emergence of multi-core architectures opens up the possibility of creating an application-specific heterogeneous computing platform by customizing a set of homogeneous cores. We propose a multi-core architecture where the cores share a reconfigurable fabric that accommodates the custom instructions. We develop an efficient algorithm that exploits this shared fabric through customization and runtime reconfiguration to minimize the execution time of multi-threaded applications. Experimental results reveal that shared reconfigurable fabric helps applications achieve substantial speedup compared to per-core private fabrics.

The content you want is available to Zendy users.

Already have an account? Click here to sign in.

Having issues? You can contact us here

Accelerating Research