Extended Cyclostatic Dataflow Program Compilation and Execution for an Integrated Manycore Processor

The ever-growing number of cores in embedded chips emphasizes more than ever the complexity inherent to parallel pro- gramming. To solve these programmability issues, there is a renewed interest in the dataflow paradigm. In this context, we present a compilation toolchain for the ΣC language, which...

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Published inProcedia computer science Vol. 18; pp. 1624 - 1633
Main Authors Aubry, Pascal, Beaucamps, Pierre-Edouard, Blanc, Frédéric, Bodin, Bruno, Carpov, Sergiu, Cudennec, Loïc, David, Vincent, Dore, Philippe, Dubrulle, Paul, Dinechin, Benoît Dupont de, Galea, François, Goubier, Thierry, Harrand, Michel, Jones, Samuel, Lesage, Jean-Denis, Louise, Stéphane, Chaisemartin, Nicolas Morey, Nguyen, Thanh Hai, Raynaud, Xavier, Sirdey, Renaud
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier B.V 01.01.2013
Subjects
compilation
cyclostatic dataflow
embedded
manycore
parallelism
programming language
sigmac
compilation
parallelism
manycore
cyclostatic dataflow
programming language
sigmac
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Summary:The ever-growing number of cores in embedded chips emphasizes more than ever the complexity inherent to parallel pro- gramming. To solve these programmability issues, there is a renewed interest in the dataflow paradigm. In this context, we present a compilation toolchain for the ΣC language, which allows the hierarchical construction of stream applications and automatic mapping of this application to an embedded manycore target. As a demonstration of this toolchain, we present an implementation of a H.264 encoder and evaluate its performance on Kalray's embedded manycore MPPA chip.
ISSN:1877-0509
1877-0509
DOI:10.1016/j.procs.2013.05.330