Title
A Novel CGRA Architecture and Mapping Algorithm for Application Acceleration
Abstract
Coarse grained reconfigurable array (CGRA) is an architecture which offers hardware like high performance and software like flexibility. The two characteristics make CGRA an effective candidate for computational intensive applications. In this paper, we propose a novel cluster base CGRA architecture which achieves high efficiency of CGRA. The reconfigurable processing elements in CGRA clusters share complex function units and registers. Area is reduced due to the resource sharing and the performance is improved. Besides, an ant colony based mapping algorithm is proposed. Experiments show that the cluster base CGRA outperforms some existing architectures in the efficiency; the proposed mapping algorithm also outperforms other mapping heuristics.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/978-3-642-41635-4_23
Communications in Computer and Information Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
CGRA,cluster based architecture,resource sharing
Cluster (physics),Architecture,Computer science,Parallel computing,Heuristics,Software,Acceleration,Mapping algorithm,Ant colony,Shared resource
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
396
1865-0929
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
4
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Li Zhou13213.87
Hengzhu Liu28623.28
dongpei liu310.37