Title :
DWARV: Delftworkbench Automated Reconfigurable VHDL Generator
Author :
Yankova, Yana ; Kuzmanov, Georgi ; Bertels, Koen ; Gaydadjiev, Georgi ; Lu, Yi ; Vassiliadis, Stamatis
Author_Institution :
Delft Univ. of Technol., Delft
Abstract :
In this paper, we present the DWARV C-to-VHDL generation toolset. The toolset provides support for broad range of application domains. It exploits the operation parallelism, available in the algorithms. Our designs are generated with a view of actual hardware/software co-execution on a real hardware platform. The carried experiments on the MOLEN polymorphic processor prototype suggest overall application speedups between 1.4x and 6.8x, corresponding to 13% to 94% of the theoretically achievable maximums, constituted by Amdahl´s law.
Keywords :
data flow graphs; hardware description languages; hardware-software codesign; optimising compilers; parallelising compilers; software tools; C-to-VHDL generation toolset; DelftWorkBench; MOLEN polymorphic processor prototype; application speedup; automated reconfigurable VHDL generator; hardware-software codesign; operation parallelism; Application software; Bandwidth; Character generation; Hardware; Laboratories; Parallel processing; Prototypes; Software performance; Software prototyping; Software tools;
Conference_Titel :
Field Programmable Logic and Applications, 2007. FPL 2007. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Amsterdam
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1060-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1060-6
DOI :
10.1109/FPL.2007.4380748