Title :
Modulo scheduler implementation for VLIW processor
Author :
Jangseop Shin ; Sangjun Han ; Hyungyun Jung ; Ingoo Heo ; Yunheung Paek
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Seoul Nat. Univ., Seoul, South Korea
Abstract :
For VLIW processors, compiler must statically schedule instructions since there are no hardware for detecting hazards and reordering instructions at runtime. Thus, instruction scheduling techniques for VLIW processors have critical influence on correct execution and effective utilization of hardware resources. Software pipelining is a popular instruction scheduling technique which enables overlapped execution of successive loop iterations. We implemented modulo scheduler, which is a widely used technique of obtaining software pipelined schedule. Experiments on a set of multimedia applications show that performance is increased up to 2.6x compared to simple list scheduling implementation.
Keywords :
multiprocessing systems; processor scheduling; VLIW processor; instruction scheduling technique; loop iteration; modulo scheduler implementation; multimedia application; software pipelined schedule; very long instruction word; IP networks; Pipeline processing; VLIW; VLIW; instruction level parallelism; instruction scheduling; modulo scheduling; software pipelining;
Conference_Titel :
SoC Design Conference (ISOCC), 2014 International
DOI :
10.1109/ISOCC.2014.7087597