Deriving efficient control in Process Networks with Compaan/Laura

: At Leiden Embedded Research Center (LERC), we are building a tool chain called Compaan/Laura that allows us to map rapidly and efficiently signal processing applications written in Matlab onto reconfigurable platforms. In this chain, first the Matlab code is converted automatically to an executable Kahn Process Network (KPN) specification [6], then a tool called Laura transforms the PN specification into a design implementation described as synthesizable VHDL. The applications targeted by Compaan are usually data-flow intensive, requiring large computational power. Therefore, an important issue in Laura is the derivation of efficient and hardware control structures. This control is based on an abstract representation given as parametrized polytopes. Although this representation can be directly translated into nested guarded for-loops (very suitable for software implementation) its mapping to hardware is much more difficult. In this paper we investigate the opportunities of deriving d...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: IJES
• Authors: Steven Derrien, Alexandru Turjan, Claudiu Zissulescu, Bart Kienhuis, Ed F. Deprettere
• Keywords: Executable Kahn Process, Hardware Control Structures, IJES 2008, Large Computational Power