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Code Generation for a SIMD Architecture with Custom Memory Organisation

Arslan, Mehmet Ali LU ; Gruian, Flavius LU orcid ; Kuchcinski, Krzysztof LU orcid and Karlsson, Andreas (2017) Conference on Design & Architectures for Signal & Image Processing (DASIP 2016) p.90-97
Abstract
Today’s multimedia and DSP applications impose requirements on performance and power consumption that only custom processor architectures with SIMD capabilities can satisfy. However, the specific features of such architectures, including vector operations and high-bandwidth complex memory organization, make them notoriously complicated and time consuming to program. In this paper we present an automated code generation approach that dramatically reduces the effort of programming such architectures, by carrying out instruction scheduling and memory allocation based on a constraint programming formulation. Furthermore, the quality of the generated code is close to that of hand-written code by an experienced programmer with knowledge of the... (More)
Today’s multimedia and DSP applications impose requirements on performance and power consumption that only custom processor architectures with SIMD capabilities can satisfy. However, the specific features of such architectures, including vector operations and high-bandwidth complex memory organization, make them notoriously complicated and time consuming to program. In this paper we present an automated code generation approach that dramatically reduces the effort of programming such architectures, by carrying out instruction scheduling and memory allocation based on a constraint programming formulation. Furthermore, the quality of the generated code is close to that of hand-written code by an experienced programmer with knowledge of the architecture. We demonstrate the viability of our approach on an existing custom heterogeneous DSP architecture, by compiling and running a number of typical DSP kernels, and comparing the results to hand-optimized code. (Less)
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2016 Conference on Design and Architectures for Signal and Image Processing (DASIP)
pages
90 - 97
publisher
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
conference name
Conference on Design & Architectures for Signal & Image Processing (DASIP 2016)
conference location
Rennes, France
conference dates
2016-10-12 - 2016-10-14
external identifiers
  • scopus:85014453016
ISBN
979-1-0922-7915-3
DOI
10.1109/DASIP.2016.7853802
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English
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yes
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  abstract     = {{Today’s multimedia and DSP applications impose requirements on performance and power consumption that only custom processor architectures with SIMD capabilities can satisfy. However, the specific features of such architectures, including vector operations and high-bandwidth complex memory organization, make them notoriously complicated and time consuming to program. In this paper we present an automated code generation approach that dramatically reduces the effort of programming such architectures, by carrying out instruction scheduling and memory allocation based on a constraint programming formulation. Furthermore, the quality of the generated code is close to that of hand-written code by an experienced programmer with knowledge of the architecture. We demonstrate the viability of our approach on an existing custom heterogeneous DSP architecture, by compiling and running a number of typical DSP kernels, and comparing the results to hand-optimized code.}},
  author       = {{Arslan, Mehmet Ali and Gruian, Flavius and Kuchcinski, Krzysztof and Karlsson, Andreas}},
  booktitle    = {{2016 Conference on Design and Architectures for Signal and Image Processing (DASIP)}},
  isbn         = {{979-1-0922-7915-3}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{90--97}},
  publisher    = {{IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.}},
  title        = {{Code Generation for a SIMD Architecture with Custom Memory Organisation}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/DASIP.2016.7853802}},
  doi          = {{10.1109/DASIP.2016.7853802}},
  year         = {{2017}},
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