Factors Influencing the Performance of a CPU-RFU Hybrid Architecture

 

In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)

Girish Venkataramani, Suraj Sudhir, Mihai Budiu, and Seth Copen Goldstein

pages 955–965, Montpellier (La Grande-Motte), France

Sep 1990

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@inproceedings{venkataramani-fpl02,
  title = {Factors Influencing the Performance of a CPU-RFU Hybrid
     Architecture},
  author = {Venkataramani, Girish and Sudhir, Suraj and Budiu, Mihai
     and Goldstein, Seth Copen},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on
     Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)},
  year = {2002},
  address = {Montpellier (La Grande-Motte), France},
  month = {Sep},
  url = {http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~seth/papers/venkataramani-fpl02.pdf},
  abstract = {Closely coupling a reconfigurable fabric with a
     conventional processor has been shown to successfully improve the
     system performance. However, today s superscalar pro-cessors are
     both complex and adept at extracting Instruction Level
     Parallelism (ILP), which introduces many complex issues to the
     design of a hybrid CPU-RFU system. This paper examines the design
     of a superscalar processor augmented with a closely-coupled
     recon-figurable fabric. It identifies architectural and compiler
     issues that affect the performance of the overall system.
     Previous efforts at combining a processor core with a
     reconfigurable fabric are examined in the light of these issues.
     We also present simulation results that emphasize the impact of
     these factors.},
  pages = {955-965},
  isbn = {3-540-44108-5},
  publisher = {Springer-Verlag},
  keywords = {Spatial Computing,Reconfigurable Computing,Phoenix},
}

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