Title :
Libraries of schedule-free operators in Alpha
Author :
De Dinechin, Florent
Author_Institution :
IRISA, Rennes, France
Abstract :
This paper presents a method, based on the formalism of affine recurrence equations, for the synthesis of digital circuits exploiting parallelism at the bit-level. In the initial specification of a numerical algorithm, the arithmetic operators are replaced with their yet unscheduled (schedule-free) binary implementation as recurrence equations. This allows a bit-level dependency analysis yielding a bit-parallel array. The method is demonstrated on the example of the matrix-vector product, and discussed
Keywords :
circuit analysis computing; digital circuits; formal specification; specification languages; affine recurrence equations; arithmetic operators; binary implementation; bit-level; bit-level dependency analysis; bit-parallel array; digital circuits synthesis; matrix-vector product; parallelism; schedule-free operators; Arithmetic; Circuit synthesis; Computer architecture; Costs; Difference equations; Digital circuits; Libraries; Parallel processing; Processor scheduling; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Application-Specific Systems, Architectures and Processors, 1997. Proceedings., IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Zurich
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7959-X
DOI :
10.1109/ASAP.1997.606830