Design Framework for Application Specific Multiprocessor Reconfigurable System-on-Chip
Speaker: Jason Huan-Yu Wu, ITEE
When: 2006-08-01 14:00:00
Venue: 78-420
Host: Dr. John Williams
Abstract: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.
Type: Ph.D confirmation
Contact:Dr. John Williams, seminar host (jwilliams@itee.uq.edu.au)
or Guido Governatori (ITEE seminar co-ordinator)
(guido@itee.uq.edu.au)