Automated communication and floorplan-aware hardware/software co-design for SoC

The main objective of modern SoC (system-on-chip) designs is to achieve high-performance while maintaining low power consumption and resource usage. However, achieving such a goal is a difficult and time-consuming engineering task due to the vast design space of hardware accelerators and HW/SW task partitioning. Depending on the partitioning decision, communication between parts of the SoC must be also optimized such that the overall runtime including both computation and communication would be fast. In this thesis, we propose an automated approach to iteratively search for a near-optimal SoC design with minimum latency within the targeted power and resource budget. Our approach consists of the following main components: (1) polyhedral-model-based hardware accelerator design space exploration, (2) modeling of various communication types and integration into LLVM-based integer linear programming for HW/SW task partitioning, (3) fast and efficient search algorithm to extract maximum operating frequency using floorplanner, and (4) back-annotation of extracted information to system level for iterative partitioning. Using FPGA as the target platform, we demonstrate that our approach consistently outperforms the previous state-of-the-art solutions for automated HW/SW co-design by 37.8% on average and up to 75.2% for certain designs.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.S.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Electrical & Computer Engr

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2019

Author dc:creator

• Lim, Jong Bin

Contributors dc:contributor

• Chen, Deming

• HW/SW Partitioning
• Near-Optimal
• Floorplanning
• System-on-Chip (SoC)

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2019 Jong Bin Lim

Language dc:language

en

Handle dc:identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/105246

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/105246