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SmartCell: A Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architecture for High Performance and Low Power Embedded Computing. Xinming Huang Depart. Of Electrical and Computer Engineering Worcester Polytechnic Institute xhuang@wpi.edu.
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SmartCell: A Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architecture for High Performance and Low Power Embedded Computing Xinming HuangDepart. Of Electrical and Computer EngineeringWorcester Polytechnic Institutexhuang@wpi.edu High Performance Embedded Computing WorkshopMIT Lincoln Laboratory19th September 2007 SMART CELLS - dynamically reconfigurable microsystems with kilo-processors
X X X X High Speed Data I/O (10s Gbps) + + + + PE2 PE6 PE10 PE9 PE11 PE1 PE3 PE5 PE7 SRM SRM SRM X X X X + + + + PE4 PE8 PE12 X X X X PE14 PE18 PE22 + + + + PE13 PE15 PE17 PE19 PE21 PE23 SRM SRM SRM X X X X PE16 PE20 PE24 + + + Configurable interconnects inter-chip wireless radio Architecture overview • Thousands of pico-processors interconnected with high-speed switching fabrics within a single chip • Goal: low-power, high-performance, reconfigurable, and applicable SMART CELLS - dynamically reconfigurable microsystems with kilo-processors
Performance Metrics, Technical Challenges, and Applications Performance/Power (GOPS/Watt) ASIC GPGPU SmartCell Applicability FPGA Flexibility • Technical Challenges: • Low power core functions • Interconnections (wiring and routing) • Compiler (hardware/alg co-design) • Reliability (evolvable algorithms) For Defense and Space Applications • Target Performance: • 1,024 ALU core • 100 MHz • 500 mW • 200 GOPS SMART CELLS - dynamically reconfigurable microsystems with kilo-processors
Experimental Performance Energy efficiency perspectives Benchmark performance of FIR filters Performances of fully pipelined 16-tap FIR filter • 2 by 2 SmartCell implementation: • TSMC 130 nm ASIC library; • 1.33 mm2; • >500 MHz operating freq.; • 10~18 times more power efficient than FPGA implementations; SMART CELLS - dynamically reconfigurable microsystems with kilo-processors