SPREAD: A Streaming-Based Partially Reconfigurable Architecture and Programming Model

Partially reconfigurable systems are promising computing platforms for streaming applications, which demand both hardware efficiency and reconfigurable flexibility. To realize the full potential of these systems, a streaming-based partially reconfigurable architecture and unified software/hardware m...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on very large scale integration (VLSI) systems Vol. 21; no. 12; pp. 2179 - 2192
Main Authors: Ying Wang, Xuegong Zhou, Lingli Wang, Jian Yan, Luk, Wayne, Chenglian Peng, Jiarong Tong
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York, NY IEEE 01.12.2013
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects:
Applied sciences
Circuit properties
Computation
Computer programs
Data encryption
Digital circuits
Dynamical systems
Efficiency
Electric, optical and optoelectronic circuits
Electronic circuits
Electronics
Exact sciences and technology
Hardware
Hardware thread
Instruction sets
Integrated circuits
Integrated circuits by function (including memories and processors)
Operating systems
Parallel processing
parallelism
partial reconfiguration
Reconfigurable control systems
Runtime
Semiconductor electronics. Microelectronics. Optoelectronics. Solid state devices
Software
Spreads
streaming application
Studies
Switches
Very large scale integration
Performance evaluation
State of the art
Field programmable gate array
partial reconfiguration
Flexibility
Switching
Implementation
Thread
AES algorithm
Graphic processing unit
Parallelism
Feasibility
Software
Hardware thread
Reconfigurable architectures
Cryptography
Execution time
streaming application
ISSN:1063-8210, 1557-9999
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Summary:Partially reconfigurable systems are promising computing platforms for streaming applications, which demand both hardware efficiency and reconfigurable flexibility. To realize the full potential of these systems, a streaming-based partially reconfigurable architecture and unified software/hardware multithreaded programming model (SPREAD) is presented in this paper. SPREAD is a reconfigurable architecture with a unified software/hardware thread interface and high throughput point-to-point streaming structure. It supports dynamic computing resource allocation, runtime software/hardware switching, and streaming-based multithreaded management at the operating system level. SPREAD is designed to provide programmers of streaming applications with a unified view of threads, allowing them to exploit thread, data, and pipeline parallelism; it enhances hardware efficiency while simplifying the development of streaming applications for partially reconfigurable systems. Experimental results targeting cryptography applications demonstrate the feasibility and superior performance of SPREAD. Moreover, the parallelized Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), Data Encryption Standard (DES), and Triple DES (3DES) hardware threads on field-programmable gate arrays show 1.61-4.59 times higher power efficiency than their implementations on state-of-the-art graphics processing units.
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ISSN:1063-8210
1557-9999
DOI:10.1109/TVLSI.2012.2231101