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Elastic systems
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Author:
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Cortadella, Jordi; Galcerán Oms, Marc; Kishinevsky, Michael
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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Ciències de la Computació; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. ALBCOM - Algorismia, Bioinformàtica, Complexitat i Mètodes Formals |
Abstract:
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Elastic systems provide tolerance to the variations in computation and communication delays. The incorporation of elasticity opens new opportunities for optimization using new correct-by-construction transformations that cannot be applied to rigid non-elastic systems. The basics of synchronous and asynchronous elastic systems will be reviewed. A set of behavior-preserving transformations will be presented: retiming, recycling, early evaluation, variable-latency units and speculative execution. The application of these transformations for performance and power optimization will be discussed. Finally, a novel framework for microarchitectural exploration will be introduced, showing that the optimal pipelining of a circuit can be automatically obtained by using the previous transformations. |
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Peer Reviewed |
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-Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria electrònica::Microelectrònica::Circuits integrats -Electronic circuit design -Registers -Delay -Latches -Receivers -Throughput -Multiplexing -Elasticity -Circuits electrònics -- Disseny i construcció |
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Article - Published version Conference Object |
Published by:
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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