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Title:
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JubiTool: Unified design flow for the perplexus SIMD hardware accelerator
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Author:
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Robert, M.; Volken, H.; Brousse, O.; Guillot, J.; Gil, T.; Grize, F.; Sassatelli, G.; Moreno Aróstegui, Juan Manuel; Madrenas Boadas, Jordi; Villa, A.
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Other authors:
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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Enginyeria Electrònica; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. AHA - Arquitectures Hardware Avançades |
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Abstract:
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This paper presents a new unified design flow
developed within the Perplexus project that aims to accelerate
parallelizable data-intensive applications in the context of ubiquitous
computing. This contribution relies on the JubiTool: a set
of integrated tools (JubiSplitter, JubiCompiler, UbiAssembler),
allowing respectively to extract, compile and assemble parallelizable
parts of applications described in Jubi language. Jubi is
a modified Java agent based language (JADE) dedicated to the
Ubichip (the bio-inspired chip developed within the confines of
the Perplexus project). By appending hardware directives to a
software agent description, the inherent flexibility of software
is combined with the runtime performance of a hardware
execution. In the case of typical Perplexus applications such
as the Spiking Neural Network Simulator, this contribution
takes profit of the intrinsic property of the Ubichip in terms
of parallelism resulting in an expected speedup of at least one
order of magnitude. Finally, this hybrid (SW/HW) flow could be
easily modified and adapted to support other kind of distributed
platforms |
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Subject(s):
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-Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria electrònica
-Electronic engineering
-Ad hoc networks (Computer networks) |
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Document type:
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Article - Published version
Conference Object |
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Published by:
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IEEE Computer Society Publications
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