Dataflow Model of Computation (D-MoC) is particularly suitable to close the gap between hardware architects and software developers. Leveraging on the combination of the D-MoC with a coarse-grained reconfigurable approach to hardware design, we propose a tool, the Multi-Dataflow Composer (MDC) tool, able to improve time-to-market of modern complex multi-purpose systems by allowing the derivation of HDL runtime reconfigurable platforms starting from the D-MoC models of the targeted set of applications. MDC tool has proven to provide a considerable on-chip area saving: the 82% of saving has been reached combining of different applications in the image processing domain, adopting a 90 nm CMOS technology. In future the MDC tool, with a very small integration effort, will also be extremely useful to create multi-standard codec platforms for MPEG RVC applications.
The multi-dataflow composer tool: A runtime reconfigurable HDL platform composer / Palumbo, Francesca; Carta, N; Raffo, L.. - (2011), pp. 1-8. (Intervento presentato al convegno Conference on Design and Architectures for Signal and Image Processing (DASIP 2011) tenutosi a Tampere nel 2-4/11/2011) [10.1109/DASIP.2011.6136876].
The multi-dataflow composer tool: A runtime reconfigurable HDL platform composer
PALUMBO, Francesca;
2011-01-01
Abstract
Dataflow Model of Computation (D-MoC) is particularly suitable to close the gap between hardware architects and software developers. Leveraging on the combination of the D-MoC with a coarse-grained reconfigurable approach to hardware design, we propose a tool, the Multi-Dataflow Composer (MDC) tool, able to improve time-to-market of modern complex multi-purpose systems by allowing the derivation of HDL runtime reconfigurable platforms starting from the D-MoC models of the targeted set of applications. MDC tool has proven to provide a considerable on-chip area saving: the 82% of saving has been reached combining of different applications in the image processing domain, adopting a 90 nm CMOS technology. In future the MDC tool, with a very small integration effort, will also be extremely useful to create multi-standard codec platforms for MPEG RVC applications.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
