A high-level compilation toolchain for heterogeneous systems

This paper describes Harmonic, a toolchain that targets multiprocessor heterogeneous systems comprising different types of processing elements such as general-purposed processors (GPPs), digital signal processors (DSP), and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) from a high-level C program. The main...

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Published in2009 IEEE International SOC Conference (SOCC) pp. 9 - 18
Main Authors Luk, W., Coutinho, J.G.F., Todman, T., Lam, Y.M., Osborne, W., Susanto, K.W., Liu, Q., Wong, W.S.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.09.2009
Subjects
Application software
Control system synthesis
Digital signal processing
Digital signal processors
Educational institutions
Engines
Field programmable gate arrays
Graphical user interfaces
Hardware
Resource management
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Summary:This paper describes Harmonic, a toolchain that targets multiprocessor heterogeneous systems comprising different types of processing elements such as general-purposed processors (GPPs), digital signal processors (DSP), and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) from a high-level C program. The main goal of Harmonic is to improve an application by partitioning and optimising each part of the program, and selecting the most appropriate processing element in the system to execute each part. The core tools include a task transformation engine, a mapping selector, a data representation optimiser, and a hardware synthesiser. We also use the C language with source-annotations as intermediate representation for the toolchain, making it easier for users to understand and to control the compilation process.
ISBN:1424449405
9781424449408
ISSN:2164-1676
2164-1706
DOI:10.1109/SOCCON.2009.5398108