Fast Architecture Evaluation of Heterogeneous MPSoCs by Host-Compiled Simulation

Roloff S, Hannig F, Teich J (2012)

Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2012

Publisher: ACM Press

Edited Volumes: Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Mapping of Applications to MPSoCs and 15th International Workshop on Software and Compilers for Embedded Systems, Map2MPSoC/SCOPES 2012

City/Town: New York, NY, USA

Pages Range: 52-61

Conference Proceedings Title: Proc. of the 15th International Workshop on Software and Compilers for Embedded Systems (SCOPES)

Event location: Schloss Rheinfels, St. Goar DE

ISBN: 978-1-4503-1336-0

DOI: 10.1145/2236576.2236582

Abstract

Many domain-specific MPSoCs are heterogeneous and tiled by nature. For evaluating important architectural decisions such as tile structure and core selection within each tile for future 100 - 1000 core designs, fast and flexible simulation approaches are mandatory. Thus, cycle-accurate simulation techniques or co-simulation approaches using simulator coupling are improper. In this paper, we evaluate heterogeneous tiled MPSoCs using a timing-approximate simulation approach. This simulation approach takes particularly into account applications with highly dynamic thread and workload distributions and resource-aware program behavior. Here, the application itself may decide which set of resources is claimed in dependence on run-time status information of the resources (e. g., temperature, load). In order to verify performance goals of the heterogeneous MPSoC apart from functional correctness, we propose a timing-approximate simulation approach, which is based on a discrete-event host-compiled simulation and a time-warping mechanism to scale the elapsed execution times on the simulation host to the simulated target. It allows the investigation of phases of thread (re-)distribution and resource-awareness with an appropriate accuracy. For selected case studies, it is shown how architectural parameters may be varied very fast enabling the exploration of different designs for cost, performance, and other design objectives. © 2012 ACM.

Authors with CRIS profile

Sascha Roloff Sonderforschungsbereich/Transregio 89 Invasives Rechnen Frank Hannig Lehrstuhl für Informatik 12 (Hardware-Software-Co-Design) Jürgen Teich Lehrstuhl für Informatik 12 (Hardware-Software-Co-Design)

How to cite

APA:

Roloff, S., Hannig, F., & Teich, J. (2012). Fast Architecture Evaluation of Heterogeneous MPSoCs by Host-Compiled Simulation. In Proc. of the 15th International Workshop on Software and Compilers for Embedded Systems (SCOPES) (pp. 52-61). Schloss Rheinfels, St. Goar, DE: New York, NY, USA: ACM Press.

MLA:

Roloff, Sascha, Frank Hannig, and Jürgen Teich. "Fast Architecture Evaluation of Heterogeneous MPSoCs by Host-Compiled Simulation." Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Software and Compilers for Embedded Systems (SCOPES), Schloss Rheinfels, St. Goar New York, NY, USA: ACM Press, 2012. 52-61.

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