MPSoC Design Using Application-Specific Architecturally Visible Communication

Abstract. This paper advocates the placement of Architecturally Visible Communication (AVC) buffers between adjacent cores in MPSoCs to provide highthroughput communication for streaming applications. Producer/consumer relationships map poorly onto cache-based MPSoCs. Instead, we instantiate application specific AVC buffers on top of a distributed consistent and coherent cache-based system with shared main memory to provide the desired functionality. Using JPEG compression as a case study, we show that the use of AVC buffers in conjunction with parallel execution via heterogeneous software pipelining provides a speedup of as much as 4.2x compared to a baseline single processor

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: HIPEAC
• Authors: Theo Kluter, Philip Brisk, Edoardo Charbon, Paolo Ienne
• Keywords: AVC Buffers, HIPEAC 2009, Specific Avc Buffers, System Software, Visible Communication