Multimode systems have emerged as an area-and power-efficient platform for implementing multiple timewise mutually exclusive digital signal processing (DSP) applications in a single hardware space. This paper presents a design methodology for integrating flexible components and controllers into primarily fixed logic multimode DSP systems, thereby increasing their overall efficiency and implementation capabilities. The components are built using a technique called small-scale reconfigurability (SSR) that provides the necessary flexibility for both intermode and intramode reconfigurabilities, without the penalties associated with general-purpose reconfigurable logic. Using this methodology, area and power consumption are reduced beyond what is provided by current multimode systems, without sacrificing performance. The results show an average of 7% reduction in datapath component area, 26% reduction in register area, 36% reduction in interconnect MUX cost, and 68% reduction in the number of controller signals, with an average 38% increase in component utilization for a set of benchmark 32-bit DSP applications.
We explore the application of Small-Scale Reconfigurability (SSR) to graphics hardware. SSR is a relatively new architectural technique wherein functionality common to multiple subunits is reused rather than replicated, yielding high-performance reconfigurable hardware with reduced area requirements. We show that SSR can be used effectively in programmable graphics architectures to allow double-precision computation without affecting the performance of single-precision calculations and to increase fragment shader performance with a minimal impact on chip area.
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MODFK#YLUJLQLDHGX ABSTRACTMulti-mode systems have emerged as an area-and power-efficient approach to implementing multiple time-wise mutually exclusive algorithms and applications in a single hardware space. These systems have limited flexibility and temporal separation between modes is achieved by changing only the dataflow between components. This paper presents a synthesis methodology for integrating flexible components and controllers into primarily fixed logic multi-mode systems thereby increasing their overall flexibility and efficiency. The components are built using a technique called small-scale reconfigurability that provides the necessary flexibility without the penalties associated with generalpurpose reconfigurable logic. The reconfiguration latency is small enabling both inter-mode and intra-mode reconfiguration of components. Datapath and controller area and power consumption are reduced beyond what is provided in current multi-mode systems using this methodology, without sacrificing performance. The results show an average 7% reduction in datapath component area, 26% reduction in register area, 36% reduction in interconnect MUX cost, and a 68% reduction in the number of controller signals for a set of benchmark 32-bit signal processing applications. There is also an average 38% increase in component utilization.
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