MT-ADRES: Multithreading on Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architecture

Kehuai Wu, Andreas Kanstein, Jan Madsen, Mladen Berekovic

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    Abstract

    The coarse-grained reconfigurable architecture ADRES (Architecture for Dynamically Reconfigurable Embedded Systems) and its compiler offer high instruction-level parallelism (ILP) to applications by means of a sparsely interconnected array of functional units and register files. As high-ILP architectures achieve only low parallelism when executing partially sequential code segments, which is also known as Amdahl’s law, this paper proposes to extend ADRES to MT-ADRES (Multi-Threaded ADRES) to also exploit thread-level parallelism. On MT-ADRES architectures, the array can be partitioned in multiple smaller arrays that can execute threads in parallel. Because the partition can be changed dynamically, this extension provides more flexibility than a multi-core approach. This article presents details of the enhanced architecture and results obtained from an MPEG-2 decoder implementation that exploits a mix of thread-level parallelism and instruction-level parallelism.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationReconfigurable Computing: Architectures, Tools and Applications : Lecture Notes in Computer Science
    Volume4419/2007
    PublisherSpringer Berlin / Heidelberg
    Publication date2007
    Pages26-38
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2007
    Event3rd International Workshop on Applied Reconfigurable Computing - Mangaratiba, Brazil
    Duration: 27 Mar 200729 Mar 2007
    Conference number: 3
    http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/arc/arc2007.html

    Workshop

    Workshop3rd International Workshop on Applied Reconfigurable Computing
    Number3
    Country/TerritoryBrazil
    CityMangaratiba
    Period27/03/200729/03/2007
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