Collaborative Research: Application Specific Architecture Customization and Co-Exploration

合作研究：特定于应用程序的体系结构定制和共同开发嵌入式市场需要能够在尽可能小的面积内实现高性能的处理器，同时最大限度地降低功耗和能耗。 定制处理器通过专门构建的目标架构提供了满足这些需求的方法，以满足给定应用的性能、面积和功耗需求。 我们的方法不同于传统的ASIC设计，因为我们的重点是将定制提升到更高的水平，我们生成可编程可重构处理器，允许算法和架构共同配置（一起配置）。在算法、数据结构、伊萨和某些架构组件都可以配置之前，架构定制无法实现显著的收益。 这项资助的重点是共同探索语音，密码和网络处理器的算法和架构设计空间，以发现常见的可定制组件。 我们的目标是从这些应用领域中识别可定制的组件，以便它们可以被合并到一个整体的基础设施中进行共同探索。为了更广泛的影响，该提案将提供基础设施，以帮助工业和学术研究人员自动共同探索架构和算法。 我们将提供这种基础设施，以帮助研究人员探索这些和其他应用领域。

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.