CAREER: Parallel CAD Algorithms on Emerging Multi-Core Platforms

项目ID：0747423标题：新兴多核平台上的并行计算机辅助设计算法PI名称：Li，Peng Inst.：德州工程实验站简介最近的行业？S向多核处理器技术的转变确实使每一个现代台式机、服务器和笔记本电脑都成为了并行计算系统。多核处理器将多个处理元件或核心集成在一个芯片上，提供了前所未有的、无处不在的并行计算能力。计算范式的变化对当今的计算机辅助设计产生了深远的影响--S曾经复杂过纳米级集成电路。这个职业项目旨在应对新的计算挑战和机遇，因为需要跟上设计复杂性的增加，当前的串行CAD实践向未来的大规模并行范例过渡。这项工作的中心方法是将不可或缺的领域知识引入到并行算法设计中，以便最有效地使用新兴的并行硬件。在单算法和多算法环境下，利用丰富的应用级粗粒度并行性，在多核和多核平台上获得良好的并行处理效率。将开发一系列并行CAD算法，包括设计流程中的关键分析、建模和优化步骤。这项工作将导致大规模并行的CAD框架和工具，这些框架和工具对于设计广泛的纳米数字、模拟和混合信号集成应用至关重要。VLSI CAD的计算密集型特性使其成为多核计算的重要应用领域。拟议的工作解决了开发并行软件应用程序的迫切需要，由此产生的并行计算范例很可能适用于其他科学和工程领域。作为这一职业计划的组成部分，教育和研究工作将整合在一起，为本科生和研究生提供研究经验。将通过现有的研究、推广计划和大学间合作，积极促进少数族裔和代表性不足的学生群体的研究参与以及K-12教育的推广。该研究所将把这一项目的研究成果纳入本科生和研究生课程开发，并将其广泛传播给学术界、政府部门和工业界。将形成多学科、国际和行业合作，以拓宽工科学生的视野。将利用密切的行业联系为学生提供真实生活体验，并促进这项工作在工业实践中的直接影响。

Project ID: 0747423 Title: Parallel CAD Algorithms on Emerging Multi-Core PlatformsPI name: Li, Peng Inst.: Texas Engineering Experiment StationABSTRACTThe recent industry?s shift to multi-core processor technology has literally made every modern-day desktop, sever, and laptop a parallel computing system. With multiple processing elements, or cores, integrated on a single chip, multi-core processors offer unprecedented, ubiquitously available parallel compute power. The paradigm change in computing has profound impacts on computer-aided design (CAD) of today?s ever complex nanoscale integrated circuits. This CAREER project intends to address the new computing challenges and opportunities as the current serial CAD practices transition to the future massively parallel paradigms, as dictated by the need to keep up with the increase in design complexity. The central approach of this work is to bring indispensable domain knowledge to parallel algorithm design so as to facilitate the most efficient use of emerging parallel hardware. A rich set of application-level coarse-grained parallelisms will be exploited under the single and multiple algorithm contexts to gain good parallel processing efficiency on multi-core and many-core platforms. A range of parallel CAD algorithms, encompassing key analysis, modeling and optimization steps in the design flow, will be developed. This work will lead to massively parallel CAD frameworks and tools that are critical to the design of a wide spectrum of nanometer digital, analog and mixed-signal integrated applications. The computationally intensive nature of VLSI CAD makes it an important application domain of multi-core computing. The proposed work addresses the urgent need for developing parallel software applications and the resulting parallel computing paradigms are likely to be applicable to other science and engineering fields. As integral parts of this CAREER plan, education and research efforts will be integrated to provide research experience to undergraduate and graduate students. Research participation from minority and underrepresented student groups as well as K-12 education outreach will be actively promoted through existing research, outreach programs and inter-university collaborations. The PI will integrate the research outcomes of this project into undergraduate and graduate curriculum development and broadly disseminate them to academic, governmental and industrial sectors. Multidisciplinary, international and industrial collaborations will be formed to broaden the horizon of engineering students. Close industry ties will be leveraged to provide students with real-life experiences and facilitate immediate impacts of this work in industrial practice.