Synthesis of Heterogeneous Multi Processor System-on-Chip with Optical Interconnect

具有光互连的异构多处理器片上系统的综合

• 批准号: 435791-2013
• 负责人: Trajkovic, Jelena
• 金额: $ 1.4万
• 依托单位: Concordia University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=637708
• 关键词: Synthesis; Heterogeneous; Multi; Processor; System

The market for embedded systems is growing rapidly while applications are being designed to expose the inherent parallelism of the underlying algorithms. Conventional processors and on-chip communication architectures do not scale well with the stringent performance and power requirements of embedded applications. Current trends in chip design indicate increasing number of transistors on chip and on-chip availability of diverse technologies. These trends have enabled the fabrication of multi-processor chips interconnected with integrated optical communication architectures. This technology promises to create systems that provide high performance and low power consumption. However, the manual design of such systems is a time consuming and error prone process, thereby negatively impacting the cost and quality of such systems.The long term objective, addressed by this research program, is to automatically synthesize the optimal set of processing elements interconnected with the most efficient communication architecture from a parallel application model. We propose the use of application specific processors (ASPs) for the computational part of the system, and integrated optics for the interconnect architecture. Over the next five years, we propose to develop: (1) automatic synthesis of ASP cores from parallel application models, (2) novel methodologies and tools to facilitate efficient design and evaluation of scalable Optical Network-on-Chip for given power, performance and reliability constrains, and (3) automatic mapping of parallel applications to systems with optical network of heterogeneous ASP cores. We will use applications from consumer electronics, bio-medical, and avionics application domains to drive our research efforts. These application domains are key drivers of the Canadian economy and solutions for efficient implementation of such applications will provide the competitive edge to Canadian design companies.

嵌入式系统的市场正在迅速增长，而应用程序旨在暴露基础算法的固有平行性。传统的处理器和片上通信体系结构并不能很好地扩展到嵌入式应用程序的严格性能和功率要求。芯片设计的当前趋势表明，芯片上的晶体管数量增加，并且片上可用性的技术可用性。这些趋势使得能够与集成的光学通信体系结构相互连接的多处理器芯片制造。该技术有望创建可提供高性能和低功耗的系统。但是，此类系统的手动设计是一个耗时且容易发生的过程，从而对此类系统的成本和质量产生负面影响。该研究计划解决的长期目标是自动综合以最佳的处理元件相互联系具有来自并行应用模型的最有效的通信体系结构。我们建议将特定于应用程序的处理器（ASP）用于系统的计算部分，以及用于互连体系结构的集成光学器件。在接下来的五年中，我们建议开发：（1）从并行应用模型中自动合成ASP核心，（2）新型方法和工具，以促进有效的设计和评估可伸缩的光网芯片，以给定功率，性能，和可靠性约束，以及（3）将并行应用自动映射到具有异质ASP核心光网络的系统。我们将使用消费电子，生物医学和航空电子应用领域的应用程序来推动我们的研究工作。这些应用领域是加拿大经济的关键动力，有效实施此类应用程序的解决方案将为加拿大设计公司提供竞争优势。