Collaborative Research: Application Specific Architecture Customization and Co-Exploration

协作研究：特定应用架构定制和共同探索

• 批准号: 0311712
• 负责人: Bradley Calder
• 金额: $ 7.5万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-01 至 2006-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0311712&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Application; Specific; Architecture

Collaborative Research: Application Specific ArchitectureCustomization and Co-ExplorationThe embedded market demands processors that can achieve high levels of performance in the smallest possible area, while simultaneously minimizing power and energy dissipation. Customized processors offer a way of meeting these demands through targeted architectures specifically constructed to meet the performance, area, and power demands of a given application. Our approach is different from the traditional ASICs design, since our focus is to bring the customization up to a higher level where we generate programmable reconfigurable processors that allow both the algorithm and architecture to be co-configured (configured together). Architecture customization is not able to realize significant gains until both the algorithms, data structures, ISA and certain architecture components can all be configured. This grant focuses on co-exploring the algorithm and architecture design space for speech, cryptographic and network processors to discover common customizable components. The goal is to identify customizable components from these application domains, so that they can be incorporated into an overall infrastructure for co-exploration.To broader impact, this proposal will provide infrastructure to aid in the automated co-exploration of architectures and algorithms for industry and academic researchers. We will make this infrastructure available to aid researchers in exploring these and other application areas.

合作研究：特定应用架构定制和共同探索嵌入式市场要求处理器能够在尽可能小的区域内实现高水平的性能，同时最大限度地降低功耗和能耗。定制处理器通过专门为满足给定应用程序的性能、面积和功耗需求而构建的目标体系结构，提供了一种满足这些需求的方法。我们的方法与传统的asic设计不同，因为我们的重点是将定制提升到更高的层次，我们生成可编程的可重构处理器，允许算法和架构共同配置（一起配置）。在算法、数据结构、ISA和某些体系结构组件都可以配置之前，体系结构定制无法实现显著的收益。该基金的重点是共同探索语音、加密和网络处理器的算法和架构设计空间，以发现通用的可定制组件。目标是从这些应用领域中识别可定制的组件，以便将它们合并到一个整体的基础设施中进行共同探索。为了产生更广泛的影响，该提案将为工业和学术研究人员提供基础设施，以帮助他们自动地共同探索架构和算法。我们将使这个基础设施可用，以帮助研究人员探索这些和其他应用领域。