TY - GEN
T1 - Extension of memory controller equipped with MuCCRA-3-DP
T2 - 2012 15th International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems, NBIS 2012
AU - Katagiri, Toru
AU - Hironaka, Kazuei
AU - Amano, Hideharu
PY - 2012/12/14
Y1 - 2012/12/14
N2 - In order to achieve a high performance on the Dynamically Reconfigurable Processor Array(DRPA), it is necessary to use PEs effectively. However, a prototype DRPA, MuCCRA-3-DP needs to generate read/write addresses for accessing data memories, and counts a number of loops on PEs. Hence, PEs of MuCCRA-3-DP can not be used effectively for actual processing of applications. To solve this problem and improve performance. We extend the memory controller of MuCCRA-3-DP and named it MuCCRA-3-EXMC. PEs of MuCCRA-3-EXMC can be concentrated on executing the actual processing by the extended memory controller performing address generation and loop count. Evaluation results showed that MuCCRA-3-EXMC can improve its performance by 12-23% and reduce its energy consumption by 9-20% without a large increase of its area.
AB - In order to achieve a high performance on the Dynamically Reconfigurable Processor Array(DRPA), it is necessary to use PEs effectively. However, a prototype DRPA, MuCCRA-3-DP needs to generate read/write addresses for accessing data memories, and counts a number of loops on PEs. Hence, PEs of MuCCRA-3-DP can not be used effectively for actual processing of applications. To solve this problem and improve performance. We extend the memory controller of MuCCRA-3-DP and named it MuCCRA-3-EXMC. PEs of MuCCRA-3-EXMC can be concentrated on executing the actual processing by the extended memory controller performing address generation and loop count. Evaluation results showed that MuCCRA-3-EXMC can improve its performance by 12-23% and reduce its energy consumption by 9-20% without a large increase of its area.
KW - MuCCRA-3
KW - dynamic reconfiguration
KW - energy consumption
KW - flexible off-loading engine
KW - memory controller
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U2 - 10.1109/NBiS.2012.87
DO - 10.1109/NBiS.2012.87
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84870786024
SN - 9780769547794
T3 - Proceedings of the 2012 15th International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems, NBIS 2012
SP - 826
EP - 831
BT - Proceedings of the 2012 15th International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems, NBIS 2012
Y2 - 26 September 2012 through 28 September 2012
ER -