Analysis of systemc actor networks for efficient synthesis

Falk J, Zebelein C, Keinert J, Haubelt C, Teich J, Bhattacharyya SS (2010)

Publication Status: Published

Publication Type: Journal article, Original article

Publication year: 2010

Journal

ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Book Volume: 10

Article Number: 18

Journal Issue: 2

DOI: 10.1145/1880050.1880054

Abstract

Applications in the signal processing domain are often modeled by dataflow graphs. Due to heterogeneous complexity requirements, these graphs contain both dynamic and static dataflow actors. In previous work, we presented a generalized clustering approach for these heterogeneous dataflow graphs in the presence of unbounded buffers. This clustering approach allows the application of static scheduling methodologies for static parts of an application during embedded software generation for multiprocessor systems. It systematically exploits the predictability and efficiency of the static dataflow model to obtain latency and throughput improvements. In this article, we present a generalization of this clustering technique to dataflow graphs with bounded buffers, therefore enabling synthesis for embedded systems without dynamic memory allocation. Furthermore, a case study is given to demonstrate the performance benefits of the approach. © 2010 ACM.

Authors with CRIS profile

Joachim Falk Lehrstuhl für Informatik 12 (Hardware-Software-Co-Design) Christian Haubelt Technische Fakultät Jürgen Teich Lehrstuhl für Informatik 12 (Hardware-Software-Co-Design)

Related research project(s)

SystemCoDesigner: System level design space exploration for embedded systems (SystemCoDesigner) April 1, 2005 - April 1, 2008 SysteMoC: Representing models of computation in SystemC (SysteMoC) April 1, 2005 - April 1, 2008

Involved external institutions

University of Maryland US United States (USA) (US)

How to cite

APA:

Falk, J., Zebelein, C., Keinert, J., Haubelt, C., Teich, J., & Bhattacharyya, S.S. (2010). Analysis of systemc actor networks for efficient synthesis. ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, 10(2). https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1880050.1880054

MLA:

Falk, Joachim, et al. "Analysis of systemc actor networks for efficient synthesis." ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems 10.2 (2010).

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