학술논문

BusMap: Application Mapping With Bus Routing for Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Array
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. II Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, IEEE Transactions on. 70(8):3054-3058 Aug, 2023
Subject
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Routing
Scheduling
Registers
Micromechanical devices
Kernel
Germanium
Arrays
CGRA
GRF access
inserted operations
bus routing mode
BusMap
Language
ISSN
1549-7747
1558-3791
Abstract
Coarse-grained reconfigurable array (CGRA) has gained popularity in compute-intensive applications because of its flexibility and energy-efficiency. When mapping the data flow graph (DFG) abstracted from the kernel loop of the application to CGRA, for data routing especially DFGs with high fan-out operations, data transfer through the global register file (GRF) and insert routing/recomputation operations in the DFG are two ways that can serve as routing paths, but with increased power cost. For the data routing in these complex DFGs, we propose a new routing mode, bus routing , to exploit the buses as routing paths between PEs without GRF access and inserted operations. A mapping method incorporating bus routing, BusMap, is proposed to map the DFG onto CGRA by solving the maximum independent set (MIS) on a quadruple resource occupation conflict graph. The experiment results show BusMap can achieve fewer GRF access and inserted operations while having the same or even smaller initiation interval (II) compared to previous works.