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In this paper we develop compilation techniques for the realization of applications described in a High Level Language (HLL) onto a Runtime Reconfigurable Architecture. The compiler determines Hyper Operations (HyperOps) that are subgraphs of a data flow graph (of an application) and comprise elementary operations that have strong producer-consumer relationship. These HyperOps are hosted on computation structures that are provisioned on demand at runtime. We also report compiler optimizations that collectively reduce the overheads of data-driven computations in runtime reconfigurable architectures. On an average, HyperOps offer a 44% reduction in total execution time and a 18% reduction in management overheads as compared to using basic blocks as coarse grained operations. We show that HyperOps formed using our compiler are suitable to support data flow software pipelining.
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Alle, M., Varadarajan, K., Fell, A., Nandy, S.K., Narayan, R. (2009). Compiling Techniques for Coarse Grained Runtime Reconfigurable Architectures. In: Becker, J., Woods, R., Athanas, P., Morgan, F. (eds) Reconfigurable Computing: Architectures, Tools and Applications. ARC 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5453. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00641-8_21
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