A coarse-grained reconfigurable architecture with compilation for high performance

Lu Wan, Chen Dong, Deming Chen

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Abstract

We propose a fast data relay (FDR) mechanism to enhance existing CGRA (coarse-grained reconfigurable architecture). FDR can not only provide multicycle data transmission in concurrent with computations but also convert resource-demanding inter-processing-element global data accesses into local data accesses to avoid communication congestion. We also propose the supporting compiler techniques that can efficiently utilize the FDR feature to achieve higher performance for a variety of applications. Our results on FDR-based CGRA are compared with two other works in this field: ADRES and RCP. Experimental results for various multimedia applications show that FDR combined with the new compiler deliver up to 29 and 21 higher performance than ADRES and RCP, respectively.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number163542
JournalInternational Journal of Reconfigurable Computing
Volume2012
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Hardware and Architecture

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