Speaker: Jason Huan-Yu Wu
When: 2:00PM Tuesday 1st August 2006
Venue: GPSouth room 78-420
Abstract:
(PhD Confirmation of Candiature Seminar)
MultiProcessor SoC (MPSoC) design based reconfigurable fabrics (also known as MP reconfigurable SoC -MPrSoC) provides a feasible solution to achieve much higher performance than software, while maintaining a higher flexibility of hardware. However, reconfigurable fabric enables almost infinite variability in the architecture of the systems implemented. Faced with this variability, how can a designer choose the most appropriate system architecture to match their application, requirements and skills?
Finding an optimal system configuration is a design challenge, because it requires a proper mapping of high-level abstractions on to the lower layers, hardware-software partitioning and design space exploration. In this research work, we present a system-level framework which incorporates Model of Computation (MoC), high level manifestation, and Integer Linear Programming (ILP) to find an optimal system configuration.
The model of computation is used to break the application into manageable tasks-level modules (task and queues). Manifest the possible implementation approaches for each tasks and queues. These manifestations will provide a design alternative for finding an optimal architecture configuration with particular optimization objectives. The architecture exploration problem is formulated as ILP problem and solved to find a best combination from these manifestations. This framework will provide a rapid prototyping MPrSoC platform with manifestation library that provides design alternatives, satisfy and optimize system constraints and objectives, thus enabling the designer to detect system performance bottlenecks at early stage.
Biography:
Jason Wu is a PhD student in the Division of Embedded Systems at the School of ITEE.
Contact: Dr John Williams