NGS: Software Innovations for Liquid Architectures

NGS：液体架构的软件创新

• 批准号: 0203869
• 负责人: Ron Cytron
• 金额: $ 14.21万
• 依托单位: Washington University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-09-15 至 2004-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0203869&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NGS; Software; Innovations; Liquid; Architectures

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:

标题：Liquid Architectures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带到低容量但高性能的应用程序中。 通过将（硬核或软核）商品处理器与可重构逻辑耦合，应用程序本质上提供了一个液体架构，其中计算机指令集的定义和实现，其协处理器的功能及其支持结构可以很容易地改变。 这些架构变化可以通过为频繁发生的操作提供指令和有效实现、通过改变高速缓存和其他支持结构的大小或策略以及通过在需要时动态地交换速度以节省功率来提高性能。 在适当的软件支持下，Liquid架构可以提高多种应用的性能，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Liquid架构上执行应用程序，解决以下问题：