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1 Multi processor systems with configurable hardware acceleration Ph.D in Electronics, Computer Science and Telecommunications Ph.D Student: Davide Rossi Ph.D Tutor: Prof. Roberto Guerrieri
2 Outline Motivations Electronics systems requirements and issues The Morpheus Platform Heterogeneous multi-core Reconfigurable platform The Manyac Platform Homogeneous and regular multi-core platform Configurable and reconfigurable acceleration Results Programming productivity Performance (area, power) Impact on manufacturing costs
3 Motivations (1) New generation embedded applications are pushing signal processing systems to improve: Performance Energy efficiency *source ITRS Flexibility Programmability Time to market *source ITRS
4 Motivations (2) Increase of products development costs (NRE): Design costs Front-end Implementation Verification Testing Software development *source PHILIPS Mask costs Significant impact on small volume products *source SEMATECH 4
5 Morpheus: Main Goals Programming legacy through: ARM Processor acting as system supervisor Flexibility and performance gain through three heterogeneous reconfigurable processing cores: Fine grain fabric (Abound Logic Flexeos efpga) Medium grain fabric (STMicroelectronics DREAM) Coarse grain fabric (PACT XPP-III) Programming productivity through: High level programming approaches for reconfigurable engines 5
6 Morpheus: Architecture Bridge Conf Mem Main Mem External Memory Controller PCM ARM9 AMBA (main bus) DNA NOC NoC DREAM AMBA (configuration bus) efpga XPP ARM core Standard peripheral set 3 communication domains Synchronization and control: Main bus (AHB) Data transfers: 8-nodes 64- bit NoC (STNoC) Configuration: Configuration bus (AHB) Hardware services: Predictable Configuration Manager (PCM) Direct Network Accesses (DNA) 4 Domains Dynamic Frequency Scaling
7 Morpheus: Reconfigurable engines Encapsulated into three independent clock islands Local buffers act as domain crossing mechanism (DPDC memories) PACT XPP Coarse grain device (16-bit) Streaming applications with regular computation patterns Programming: NML (Natural Mapping Language) DREAM Medium grain computation intensive device (4-bit) Iterative applications with complex addressing patterns Programming: Griffy-C efpga Fine grain device (1-bit LUT) Applications handling bit-manipulations, configurable I/O Programming: VHDL 7
8 Morpheus: Chip description and Measurements e F P G A C. M E M M. M E M PCM ARM DREAM PACT XPP Technology: CMOS090GP Supply voltage: 1V Transistor count: 97 M Chip area: 110 mm 2 Static power: 235 mw Max frequency 250 MHz Peak power: 3W ARM DOMAIN Max Freq@1V: 250 MHz Dynamic power: 2.4 mw/mhz XPP subsystem: Max Freq@1V: 150 MHz Dynamic power: 7,5 mw/mhz DREAM subsystem: Max Freq@1V: 200 MHz Dynamic power: 2,1 mw/mhz efpga subsystem: Max Freq@1V: 100 MHz Dynamic power: 0,8 mw/mhz
9 Manyac: Main Goals Flexibility and Programmability through: Multi-processor approach Performance gain trough: Application specific hardware accelerators Programming/design productivity through: High level programming approach based on OpenCL Automatic synthesis of accelerators from high-level language (Griffy-C) Reduction of costs through: Platform-based design approach Regular replication of identical tiles Regular silicon structures for implementation of accelerators 9
10 Manyac: Architecture Regular replication of identical computational tiles + one IO tile Communication: ring topology NoC (STNoC) 3 Hierarchy levels memory infrastructure: Private memory Local memory Global memory Hardware synchronization Hardware accelerators Regular gate arrays The architectural parameters are configurable at design time 10
11 Manyac: Configurable Hardware Accelerators(ST Microelectronics) Pipelined datapaths targeting three kinds of configurable gate array: Run-time programmable gate array Routing and functionalities are programmed through SRAMs Post-fabrication programmability Via-programmable gate array Routing and functionalities are programmed through one via layer Customization: 1 metal layer Metal-programmable gate array Functionalities are mapped on a library of metal programmable cells Customization: 9 metal layers customizations through VIAs customizations through metals 11
12 Manyac: Programming Model Based on OpenCL Sequential code executes on a host processor Parallel and hardware accelerated code executes on the parallel device Two programming models Data parallel (Homogeneous) Task parallel (Heterogeneous) Hardware accelerated functions are encapsulated within parallel kernels and tasks 12
13 Manyac: Design environment OpenCL compiler Allocates function and variables according to OpenCL qualifiers Generates host and device code TLM simulation platform High level exploration of architectural parameters RTL platform Cycle-accurate simulation platform Entry point for physical implementation Griffy environment Accelerators design, simulation models and implementation 13
14 Manyac: Implementation Technology: CMOS40LP, 1.1V Configuration Technology: Metal programmable CT Area: Post Layout: 0,8 mm 2 Metal Programmable area (targeting motion detection application): Post Layout: 0,2 mm 2 4 Tiles Cluster Area: Post Synthesis: ~5 mm 2 Max frequency (post layout): 250 MHz (wc, 125 C, 1.0V) Power consumption : 45 mw@250mhz (nc, 25 C, 1.1V) Computational tile area breakdown by logic entity Computational tile layout 14
15 Results: analysis of programming productivity Objective: evaluate programming productivity improvement due to high level approaches Efforts are estimated according with programming language tables based (*SPR) on the Function Point Analysis (FPA) extended to VHDL language Griffy-C and NML treated as ASM Programming effort required to implement signal processing application on different computational platforms Reduction of design effort with respect to VHDL: 1,3x 2x Language Average Source Statements per FP Productivity Average per Staff Month C FP ASM FP VHDL FP 15
16 Results: Morpheus performance Application fields selected for characterization: Image processing (Edge detection, Binarization, Rgb2YUV) Video processing ( Motion Estimation, Motion Compensation) Telecommunications (CRC, AES, Ethernet) Performance (measured): 1,6 15 GOPS Energy efficiency (measured): 2,7 52,9 GOPS/W Reduction of dynamic power due to frequency scaling: 1.5x 5.5x PERFORMANCE (GOPS) ENERGY EFFICIENCY (GOPS/W) 16
17 Results: Manyac performance by configuration technology Technology node: CMOS65LP 8 cores platform All figures are estimated Std-cell based accelerators: Performance: 5,5 25 GOPS Energy efficiency: GOPS/W Area efficiency: 0,6 3 GOPS/mm 2 Metal programmable accelerators overhead is negligible Via programmable accelerators Performance overhead: 1,25x Energy efficiency: 2,9x Area efficiency: 4,7x Run-time programmable accelerators Performance overheads: 1,25x Energy efficiency: 3,7x Area efficiency: 10x 17
18 Results: Manyac manufacturing costs by configuration technology Assumptions: Technology node: CMOS65LP 5 customizations (or re-spins) of the same platform Run-time programmable and via programmable technologies are convenient only for very low market volumes Run-time programmable: <5K pieces Via programmable: 5K 12K pieces) Metal programmable technology is convenient for larger market volumes Perspectives: As technology nodes scale reconfigurable technologies are becoming even more convenient MANUFACTURING COST PER CONFIGURATION TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY NODES TRENDS 18
19 Conclusion Two multi-core platforms with configurable/ reconfigurable acceleration have been presented: The Morpheus platform (heterogeneous, reconfigurable) The Manyac platform (homogeneous, configurable) Improvement of design/programming productivity due to high level approaches: 1,3x 2x Multi-processor systems with accelerators implemented on reconfigurable and structured ASIC technologies are able to provide high performance, still showing some overhead in terms of power and area with respect to traditional standardcell based approach. The proposed approaches provide an effective way to reduce manufacture costs, especially for low volume products. 19
20 Collaborations The PhD is in collaboration with STMicroelectronics Collaborations within 2 European projects: MORPHEUS (FP6) MODERN (ENIAC)
21 Publications Book chapters: N. Voros et al. Dynamic System Reconfiguration in Heterogeneous Platforms, Chapter 5: The DREAM digital Signal Processor, Chapter 8: The MORPHEUS Data Communication and Storage Infrastructure, Springer, Conference Papers: D. Rossi et al. A Heterogeneous Digital Signal Processor Implementation for Dynamically Reconfigurable Computing, CICC (Custom Integrated Circuit Conference), D. Rossi et al. A Multi-Core Signal Processor for Heterogeneous Reconfigurable Computing, International Symposium on System-on-Chip, Proceedings, F. Campi et al. RTL-to-Layout Implementation of an Embedded Coarse Grained Architecture for Dynamically Reconfigurable Computing in Systems-on-Chip, Proceedings, Journal Papers: D. Rossi et al., A Heterogeneous Digital Signal Processor for Dynamically Reconfigurable Computing, JSSC IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, D. Rossi, C. Mucci, F. Campi, S. Spolzino, L. Vanzolini, H. Sahlbach, S. Whitty, R. Ernst, W. Putzke-Röming, and R. Guerrieri, Application Space Exploration of a Heterogeneous Run Time Configurable Digital Signal Processor, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (TVLSI) Systems, 2012.
22 Thanks for your attention
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