Greybox Design Methodology: A Program Driven Hardware Co-optimization with Ultra-Dynamic Clock Management

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Abstract

In this paper, a novel Greybox design methodology is proposed to establish a design and co-optimization flow across the boundary of conventional software and hardware design. The dynamic timing of each software instruction is simulated and associated with processor hardware design, which provides the basis of ultra-dynamic clock management. The proposed scheme effectively implements the instruction-based clock management and achieves 21.71% frequency speedup. Besides, a novel program-driven hardware optimization flow is proposed, in which software operations are mapped with hardware gate netlist and sorted by the usage frequency. The experiments on an ARM based pipeline design in commercial 65nm CMOS process show an extra 10% frequency speedup is obtained with high optimization efficiency. Overall, the proposed Greybox design method achieves frequency speedup by 31.56%, comparing with conventional design method.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 54th Annual Design Automation Conference 2017, DAC 2017
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781450349277
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 18 2017
Event54th Annual Design Automation Conference, DAC 2017 - Austin, United States
Duration: Jun 18 2017Jun 22 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings - Design Automation Conference
VolumePart 128280
ISSN (Print)0738-100X

Other

Other54th Annual Design Automation Conference, DAC 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAustin
Period6/18/176/22/17

Funding

This work is partially supported by NSF grants CCF-1618065 and CCF-1116610.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Modeling and Simulation

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