標題: Area-Efficient Instruction Set Extension Exploration with Hardware Design Space Exploration
作者: Wu, I-Wei
Chung, Chung-Ping
Shann, Jean Jyh-Jiun
資訊工程學系
Department of Computer Science
關鍵字: instruction set extension (ISE);customizable processor;application-specific instruction-set processor (ASIP);design space exploration;area efficient
公開日期: 1-九月-2011
摘要: Instruction set extension (ISE) is an effective approach to improve the processor performance without tremendous modification in its core architecture. To execute ISE(s), a processor core must be augmented with a new functional unit, called application specific functional unit (ASFU), which consists of multiple hardware implementation options of ISEs (ISE_HW). Obviously, since ISE_HW increases the production cost of a processor core, minimizing the area size of ISE_HW becomes important for ISE exploration. On the other hand, because of different requirements in space and speed, ISE_HW usually has multiple hardware implementation options. Under pipeline-stage timing constrain:, some of these options may have the same performance improvement but entail different hardware costs. According to this phenomenon, the area size of ISE_HW can be reduced by performing hardware design space exploration of ISE_HW. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an ISE exploration algorithm that explores not only ISE but also the hardware design space of ISE_HW. Compared with the previous research, our approach resulted in significant improvement in area efficiency and the execution performance.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11536/19326
ISSN: 1016-2364
期刊: JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Volume: 27
Issue: 5
起始頁: 1641
結束頁: 1657
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