DAEGEN: A Modular Compiler for Exploring Decoupled Spatial Accelerators

Jian Weng*, Sihao Liu, Vidushi Dadu, Tony Nowatzki

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Specialized hardware accelerators, particularly those that are programmable and flexible to target multiple problems in their domain, have proven to provide orders of magnitude speedup and energy efficiency. However, their design requires extensive manual effort, due to the need for hardware-software codesign to balance the degree and forms of specialization to the domains or program behaviors of interest. This article provides the first steps towards one approach for automating much of these processes. The insight behind our work is to recognize that decoupled spatial architectures both define a rich design space with many tradeoffs for different kinds of applications, and also can be composed out of a simple set of well-defined primitives. Therefore, we propose a modular accelerator design framework, DAEGEN, a.k.a. Decoupled Access Excution Accelerator Generator. This article defines an initial compiler and architecture primitives, and we discuss key challenges.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number8911256
Pages (from-to)161-165
Number of pages5
JournalIEEE Computer Architecture Letters
Volume18
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 1 2019

Keywords

  • design automation
  • hardware/software co-design
  • Reconfigurable accelerators
  • spatial architectures

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Hardware and Architecture

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