NGS: Software Innovations for Liquid Architectures

题目：液体架构的软件创新我们建议通过半自动生成自定义逻辑，部署在可重构逻辑中，将自定义逻辑的优势引入小容量但高性能的应用程序。通过将（硬核或软核）商品处理器与可重构逻辑耦合在一起，应用程序本质上提供了一种液态体系结构，在这种体系结构中，计算机指令集的定义和实现、协处理器的功能以及支持结构都可以很容易地改变。通过为频繁发生的操作提供指令和有效的实现，通过更改缓存的大小或策略和其他支持结构，以及在需要时动态地交换速度以节省电力，这些体系结构更改可以提高性能。在适当的软件支持下，液态架构可以提高许多应用程序的性能，从高性能的科学计算到低功耗的嵌入式系统。我们的研究旨在开发软件基础设施和方法，以促进在液体架构上执行应用程序，解决以下问题：

TITLE: Software Innovations for Liquid Architectures We propose to bring the advantages of custom logic to low-volume but high-performance applications by semiautomatically generating custom logic, deployed in reconfigurable logic. By coupling (hard-or soft-core) commodity processors with reconfigurable logic, an application is essentially offered a liquid architecture, where the definition and implementation of the computer's instruction set, its coprocessors' functionality, and its supporting structures can be easily changed. These architectural changes can improve performance by supplying instructions and efficient implementations for frequently occurring operations, by changing the size or policies of caches and other supporting structures, and by dynamically exchanging speed for power-savings where required. With proper software support, liquid architectures can improve the performance of many kinds of applications, ranging from high-performance, scientific calculations to low-power, embedded systems. Our research aims to develop the software infrastructure and methodologies needed to facilitate execution of applications on liquid architectures, addressing the following issues: