SHF: Small: Rethinking CAD for System-Level Design via Interactivity, Learning, and Collaboration

SHF：小型：通过交互性、学习和协作重新思考 CAD 的系统级设计

• 批准号: 1527821
• 负责人: Luca Carloni
• 金额: $ 45万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-06-15 至 2020-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1527821&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SHF; Small; Rethinking; CAD; System

In a zeal to pack more transistors into a single integrated circuit, the semiconductor industry has produced many generations of electronic products that are increasingly more powerful and less expensive resulting in massive expansion of information and communication technologies with economic benefits that are estimated as a large part of global productivity growth during the recent decades. A continuous stream of innovations across the three main semiconductor technology areas lies at the root of this success story: (i) device and manufacturing, (ii) circuits and architectures, and (iii) Computer-Aided Design (CAD) methodologies and tools. Recent innovations in the first two areas make it possible to envision new generations of products that are stronger in computational power and richer in functional capabilities. The research enabled by this project, attempts to undertake corresponding innovations in the third area mentioned above. A core part of this program is the development of a new senior-level undergraduate course that will engage the students in working together on a semester-long project with the infrastructure support for collaborative engineering provided by the new CAD environment. Current effort of designing state-of-the-art integrated circuits, suffers from shortcomings that characterize current CAD flows, e.g., the lack of support for exploring the design space across its hardware and software components in search of better solutions; the limited capabilities in optimizing simultaneously multiple components at the system level; and the big learning curve and long execution times that many tools require. This project will investigate a new generation of CAD methodologies and tools. Specifically, the research team will develop a new environment for System-Level Design that is highly interactive, exalts the designers' experience, inspires their creativity, and promotes continuous collaboration across the engineering team. The proposed approach leverages recent work on supervised and compositional design-space exploration, and the application of learning methods to assist designers in the use of advanced high-level synthesis tools.

热情将更多的晶体管包装到单个集成电路中，半导体行业产生了许多世代的电子产品，这些产品越来越强大且价格越来越便宜，从而大量扩展了信息和通信技术，并且在最近几十年中，它们估计是全球生产力增长的很大一部分。三个主要半导体技术领域的创新连续流在于这个成功故事的根源：（i）设备和制造，（ii）电路和体系结构，以及（iii）计算机辅助设计（CAD）方法和工具。前两个领域的最新创新使得可以设想新一代的计算能力和功能功能更丰富的产品。 该项目启用了该研究，试图在上述第三领域进行相应的创新。 该计划的核心部分是开发新的高级本科课程，该课程将与学生共同合作，并与新CAD环境提供的协作工程基础架构支持。 当前设计最先进的集成电路的努力遭受了当前CAD流动的特征的缺点，例如，缺乏支持探索其硬件和软件组件的设计空间以寻找更好的解决方案的支持；在系统级别同时优化多个组件的功能有限；以及许多工具所需的大学习曲线和较长的执行时间。该项目将研究新一代的CAD方法和工具。具体来说，研究团队将开发一个具有高度互动性的系统级设计的新环境，升高设计师的体验，启发他们的创造力，并促进整个工程团队的持续协作。提出的方法利用了有关监督和组成设计空间探索的最新工作，以及学习方法的应用来帮助设计师使用高级高级合成工具。

项目成果

Cross-ISA machine instrumentation using fast and scalable dynamic binary translation

• DOI: 10.1145/3313808.3313811
• 发表时间: 2019-04
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments
• 作者: E. G. Cota;L. Carloni