Stander, Justin Nathanial
(2007)
ELECTRONIC DESIGN AUTOMATION FOR AN ENERGY-EFFICIENT COARSE-GRAIN RECONFIGURABLE FABRIC ARCHITECTURE.
Master's Thesis, University of Pittsburgh.
(Unpublished)
Abstract
In the past those looking to accelerate computationally intensive applications through hardware implementations have had relatively few target platforms to choose from, each with wildly opposing benefits and drawbacks. The SuperCISC Energy-Efficient Coarse-Grain Reconfigurable Fabric provides an ultra-low power alternative to field-programmable gate array (FPGA) devices and application specific integrated circuits (ASICs). The proposed Fabric combines the reconfigurable nature and manageable Computer-Aided Design (CAD) flow of FPGAs with power and energy characteristic similar to those of an ASIC. This thesis establishes the design flow and explores issues central to the design space exploration of the SuperCISC Reconfigurable Fabric Project. The Fabric Interconnect Model specification facilitates rapid design space exploration for a range of Fabric Models. Significant effort was put into the development of the Greedy Heuristic Fabric Mapper which automates the problem of programming the Fabric to perform the desired hardware function. Coupled with additional automation the Mapper allows for conversion of C-code specified application kernels into Fabric Configurations. The FIMFabricPrinter automates the verification, simulation, statistics gathering, and visualization of these Fabric Configurations. Results show the Fabric achieving power improvements of 68X to 369X, and energy improvements of 38X to 127X over the same benchmarks performed on an FPGA device.
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University of Pittsburgh ETD
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| Status: |
Unpublished |
| Creators/Authors: |
| Creators | Email | Pitt Username | ORCID  |
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| Stander, Justin Nathanial | jns36@pitt.edu | JNS36 | |
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| Date: |
25 September 2007 |
| Date Type: |
Completion |
| Defense Date: |
5 July 2007 |
| Approval Date: |
25 September 2007 |
| Submission Date: |
29 June 2007 |
| Access Restriction: |
5 year -- Restrict access to University of Pittsburgh for a period of 5 years. |
| Institution: |
University of Pittsburgh |
| Schools and Programs: |
Swanson School of Engineering > Computer Engineering |
| Degree: |
MSCoE - Master of Science in Computer Engineering |
| Thesis Type: |
Master's Thesis |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
cad; fpga alternatives; heuristic; mapping; reconfigurable fabric; supercisc; xml |
| Other ID: |
http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-06292007-153640/, etd-06292007-153640 |
| Date Deposited: |
10 Nov 2011 19:49 |
| Last Modified: |
15 Nov 2016 13:45 |
| URI: |
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/8227 |
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