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A generalized scheduling approach for dynamic dataflow applications

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William Plishker,

Shuvra S. BhattacharyyaAuthors Info & Claims

DATE '09: Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe

Pages 111 - 116

Published: 20 April 2009 Publication History

Abstract

For a number of years, dataflow concepts have provided designers of digital signal processing systems with environments capable of expressing high-level software architectures as well as low-level, performance-oriented kernels. But analysis of system-level trade-offs has been inhibited by the diversity of models and the dynamic nature of modern dataflow applications. To facilitate design space exploration for software implementations of heterogeneous dataflow applications, developers need tools capable of deeply analyzing and optimizing the application. To this end, we present a new scheduling approach that leverages a recently proposed general model of dynamic dataflow called core functional dataflow (CFDF). CFDF supports high-level application descriptions with multiple models of dataflow by structuring actors with sets of modes that represent fixed behaviors. In this work we show that by decomposing a dynamic dataflow graph as directed by its modes, we can derive a set of static dataflow graphs that interact dynamically. This enables designers to readily experiment with existing dataflow model specific scheduling techniques to all or some parts of the application while applying custom schedulers to others. We demonstrate this generalized dataflow scheduling method on dynamic mixed-model applications and show that run-time and buffer sizes significantly improve compared to a baseline dynamic dataflow scheduler and simulator.

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DATE '09: Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe

April 2009

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ISBN:9783981080155

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Luca Benini
University of Bologna, IT
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University of Southampton, UK
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