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A High-Level Synthesis Algorithm with Inter-Island Distance Based Operation Chainings for RDR Architectures

Kotaro TERADA, Masao YANAGISAWA, Nozomu TOGAWA

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In deep-submicron era, interconnection delays are not negligible even in high-level synthesis and regular-distributed-register architectures (RDR architectures) have been proposed to cope with this problem. In this paper, we propose a high-level synthesis algorithm using operation chainings which reduces the overall latency targeting RDR architectures. Our algorithm consists of three steps: The first step enumerates candidate operations for chaining. The second step introduces maximal chaining distance (MCD), which gives the maximal allowable inter-island distance on RDR architecture between chaining candidate operations. The last step performs list-scheduling and binding simultaneously based on the results of the two preceding steps. Our algorithm enumerates feasible chaining candidates and selects the best ones for RDR architecture. Experimental results show that our proposed algorithm reduces the latency by up to 40.0% compared to the original approach, and by up to 25.0% compared to a conventional approach. Our algorithm also reduces the number of registers and the number of multiplexers compared to the conventional approaches in some cases.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E98-A No.7 pp.1366-1375
Publication Date
2015/07/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1337
DOI
10.1587/transfun.E98.A.1366
Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Design Methodologies for System on a Chip)
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Kotaro TERADA
  Waseda University
Masao YANAGISAWA
  Waseda University
Nozomu TOGAWA
  Waseda University

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