• DocumentCode
    1025870
  • Title

    Cost-sensitive partitioning in an architecture synthesis system for multicluster processors

  • Author

    Chu, Michael L. ; Fan, Kevin C. ; Ravindran, Rajiv A. ; Mahlke, Scott A.

  • Author_Institution
    Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI, USA
  • Volume
    24
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2004
  • Firstpage
    10
  • Lastpage
    20
  • Abstract
    Application-specific instruction processors (ASIPs) have great potential to meet the challenging demands of pervasive systems. This hierarchical system automatically designs highly customized multicluster processors. In the first of two tightly coupled components, design space exploration heuristically searches the basic capabilities that define the processor´s overall parallelism. In the second, a hardware compiler determines the detailed architecture configuration that realizes the parallelism.
  • Keywords
    multiprocessing systems; parallel architectures; workstation clusters; application-specific instruction processors; architecture synthesis system; cost-sensitive partitioning; hardware compiler; multicluster processors; pervasive systems; Algorithm design and analysis; Application specific processors; Computer architecture; Costs; Hardware; Parallel processing; Portable computers; Power generation; Space exploration; Streaming media;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Micro, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0272-1732
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MM.2004.7
  • Filename
    1310262