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  • An Energy-Efficient Patchable Accelerator and Its Design Methods

    Hiroaki YOSHIDA  Masayuki WAKIZAKA  Shigeru YAMASHITA  Masahiro FUJITA  

     
    PAPER-High-Level Synthesis and System-Level Design

      Vol:
    E97-A No:12
      Page(s):
    2507-2517

    With the shorter time-to-market and the rising cost in SoC development, the demand for post-silicon programmability has been increasing. Recently, programmable accelerators have attracted more attention as an enabling solution for post-silicon engineering change. However, programmable accelerators suffers from 5∼10X less energy efficiency than fixed-function accelerators mainly due to their extensive use of memories. This paper proposes a highly energy-efficient accelerator which enables post-silicon engineering change by a control patching mechanism. Then, we propose a patch compilation method from a given pair of an original design and a modified design. We also propose a design method to add redundant wires in advance to decrease the necessary amount of patch memory for post-silicon engineering change. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed accelerators offer high energy efficiency competitive to fixed-function accelerators and can achieve about 5X higher efficiency than the existing programmable accelerators. We also show the trade-off between redundant wires and the necessary amount of patch memory.