Abstract
Effective exploitation of the application-specific parallel patterns and computation operations through their direct implementation in hardware is the base for construction of high-quality application-specific (re-)configurable application specific instruction set processors (ASIPs) and hardware accelerators for modern highly-demanding applications. Although it receives a lot of attention from the researchers and practitioners, a very important problem of hardware reuse in ASIP and accelerator synthesis is clearly underestimated and does not get enough attention in the published research. This paper is an effect of an industry and academic collaborative research. It analyses the problem of hardware sharing, shows its high practical relevance, as well as a big influence of hardware sharing on the major circuit and system parameters, and its importance for the multi-objective optimization and tradeoff exploitation. It also demonstrates that the state-of-the-art synthesis tools do not sufficiently address this problem and gives several guidelines related to enhancement of the hardware reuse.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 14th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD 2011), 31 August - 2 September 2011, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Place of Publication | Los Alamitos |
Publisher | IEEE Computer Society |
Pages | 140-147 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4577-1048-3 |
Publication status | Published - 2011 |
Event | 14th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD 2011) - Oulu, Finland Duration: 31 Aug 2011 → 2 Sept 2011 Conference number: 14 http://dsmc2.eap.gr/dsd2011/ |
Conference
Conference | 14th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD 2011) |
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Abbreviated title | DSD 2011 |
Country/Territory | Finland |
City | Oulu |
Period | 31/08/11 → 2/09/11 |
Other | "Architectures, Methods and Tools" |
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