Factors
Influencing the Performance of a CPU-RFU Hybrid Architecture
Tuesday October 8, 2002
Hamerschlag Hall D-210
4:00 p.m.
Girish Venkataramani
Carnegie Mellon University
Closely coupling a reconfigurable fabric with a conventional processor
has been shown to successfully improve the system performance. However,
today's superscalar processors are both complex and adept at extracting
Instruction Level Parallelism (ILP), which introduces many complex issues
to the design of a hybrid CPU-RFU system. This work examines the design
of a superscalar processor augmented with a closely-coupled reconfigurable
fabric, and identifies architectural and compiler issues that affect the
performance of the overall system.
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