CAREER: Parallel CAD Algorithms on Emerging Multi-Core Platforms

项目编号：0747423题目：新兴多核平台上的并行CAD算法名称：李鹏研究所：德克萨斯州工程实验站摘要：近期行业？美国向多核处理器技术的转变，确实使现代的台式电脑、服务器和笔记本电脑都成为并行计算系统。通过在单个芯片上集成多个处理元素或核心，多核处理器提供了前所未有的、无处不在的并行计算能力。计算机范式的变化对当今的计算机辅助设计（CAD）产生了深远的影响。最复杂的纳米级集成电路。随着当前串行CAD实践向未来大规模并行范式的转变，由于需要跟上设计复杂性的增加，这个CAREER项目旨在解决新的计算挑战和机遇。这项工作的核心方法是将不可缺少的领域知识引入并行算法设计，以促进最有效地利用新兴的并行硬件。在单算法和多算法环境下，利用一组丰富的应用层粗粒度并行性，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CAD框架和工具，这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。超大规模集成电路CAD的计算密集型特性使其成为多核计算的重要应用领域。提出的工作解决了开发并行软件应用程序的迫切需要，并且由此产生的并行计算范式可能适用于其他科学和工程领域。作为这一职业规划的组成部分，教育和研究工作将结合起来，为本科生和研究生提供研究经验。少数民族和代表性不足的学生群体的研究参与以及K-12教育外展将通过现有的研究，外展计划和大学间的合作积极促进。研究计划将把研究成果纳入本科及研究生课程的发展，并向学术界、政府及业界广泛传播。将形成多学科、国际和工业合作，以拓宽工程学生的视野。紧密的行业联系将为学生提供现实生活经验，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.