An implementation of a SIMT architecture-based stream processor

Author

Gyutaek Kyung ; Changmin Jung ; Kwangyeob Lee

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., Seokyeong Univ., Seoul, South Korea

fYear

2014

fDate

22-25 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this paper, we designed a SIMT architecture-based stream processor for parallel processing in the mobile environment. The designed processor is a superscalar architecture and can issue up to four instructions. Considering the limited resources of the mobile environment, this processor was consisted of 16 stream processors (SPs). To verify the operation of the designed processor, a functional level simulation was conducted with the Modelsim SE 10.0b simulator. We synthesized on Virtex-7 FPGA as the target with the Xilinx ISE 14.7 tool and the results analyzed. The performance of the designed processor was 150M Triangles/Sec, 4.8 GFLOPS at 100 MHz. When the performance was compared with that of conventional processors, the proposed architecture of the processor attested to be effective in processing 3D graphics and parallel general-purpose computing in the mobile environment.

Keywords

field programmable gate arrays; mobile computing; parallel processing; 3D graphics processing; SIMT architecture-based stream processor; SP; Virtex-7 FPGA; Xilinx ISE 14.7 tool; field programmable gate array; functional level simulation; mobile environment; parallel general-purpose computing; parallel processing; single instruction multiple thread; superscalar architecture; Computer architecture; Educational institutions; Graphics; Graphics processing units; Instruction sets; Mobile communication; Registers; GPGPU; SIMT Architecture; Stream Processor;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

TENCON 2014 - 2014 IEEE Region 10 Conference

Conference_Location

Bangkok

ISSN

2159-3442

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-4076-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCON.2014.7022313

Filename

7022313