Title
Exploiting Hierarchical Configuration to Improve Run-Time MPSoC Task Assignment
Abstract
Run-time assignment of a set of communicating tasks onto a heterogeneous multiprocessor system-on-chip (MP- SoC) platform is a challenging task. Having FPGA fab- ric tiles in such MPSoC platform increases performance and e xibility of the platform. Such FPGA tiles can not only run tasks in hardware but also instantiate a soft IP core that executes the task functionality. Thus fully exploit- ing the available FPGA fabric resources must include ex- ploiting such a hierarchical congur ation. This paper de- tails the benets of using a hierarchical congur ation and illustrates how to incorporate it within a generic run-time task assignment heuristic. We show that adding a hierar- chical congur ation signicantly improves task assignment performance (i.e. success rate and assignment quality). In several cases, the performance of a heuristic with a hier- archical congur ation extends beyond the capabilities of a full solution space exploration without hierarchical cong- uration, at only a fraction of the computation time.
Year
Venue
Field
2006
ERSA
Computer architecture,Computer science,Parallel computing,MPSoC
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
1
0.39
References 
Authors
4
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vincent Nollet11489.06
Prabhat Avasare222612.97
Diederik Verkest31544123.76
Henk Corporaal41787166.20