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Generating hardware and software for RISC-V cores generated with Rocket Chip generator

This paper presents the hardware/software generation backend of a code generation framework. The backend aims at synthesizing complete systems based on RISC-V cores with accelerators from a single-language description. The framework takes the dataflow desc ...

IEEE2021

Programming Heterogeneous CPU-GPU Systems by High-Level Dataflow Synthesis

Marco Mattavelli, Endri Bezati, Aurélien François Gilbert Bloch

Heterogeneous processing platforms combining in various architectures CPUs, GPUs, and programmable logic, are continuously evolving providing at each generation higher theoretical levels of computing performance. However, the challenge of how efficiently s ...

IEEE2020

Pipeline Synthesis and Optimization from Branched Feedback Dataflow Programs

Marco Mattavelli, Simone Casale Brunet, Endri Bezati, Anatoly Prihozhy

Large dataflow designs are a result of behavioral specification of modern complex digital systems and/or a result of unfolding and transforming looped and branched programs. Since deep-submicron silicon technology provides large amounts of available resour ...

SPRINGER2020

An Heterogeneous Compiler Of Dataflow Programs For Zynq Platforms

Marco Mattavelli, Simone Casale Brunet, Romuald Mosqueron, Endri Bezati

In recent years, the number and variety of heterogeneous multiprocessor system-on-chip MPSoCs, such as for instance Zynq platforms, has sensibly increased. However, today all design flow solutions capable of programming the different components of such pla ...

IEEE2019

Composite Data Types in Dynamic Dataflow Languages as Copyless Memory Sharing Mechanism

Marco Mattavelli, Endri Bezati, Aurélien François Gilbert Bloch

This paper presents new optimization approaches aiming at reducing the impact of memory accesses on the performance of dataflow programs. The approach is based on introducing a high level management of composite data types in dynamic dataflow programming l ...

2019

High-Precision Performance Estimation for the Design Space Exploration of Dynamic Dataflow Programs

Marco Mattavelli, Malgorzata Maria Michalska, Simone Casale Brunet, Endri Bezati

The implementation and optimization of dynamic dataflow programs on multi/many-core platforms require solving a very difficult problem: how to partition and schedule the processing elements and dimension their interconnecting buffers according to given opt ...

2017

Shared-variable Synchronization Approaches for Dynamic Data Flow Programs

Marco Mattavelli, Simone Casale Brunet, Endri Bezati, Apostolos Modas, Junaid Jameel Ahmad

This paper presents shared-variable synchronization approaches for dataflow programming. The mechanisms do not require any substantial model of computation (MoC) modification, and is portable across both for hardware (HW) and software (SW) low-level code s ...

IEEE2018

Efficient Dynamic Optimisation Heuristics for Dataflow Pipelines

Marco Mattavelli, Simone Casale Brunet, Endri Bezati, Anatoly Prihozhy

Large dataflow designs appear as a result of functional specification of modern complex digital systems and/ or a result of unfolding and behavioral transformation of looped and branched programs. Since deep-submicron silicon technology provides large amou ...

IEEE2018

Performance estimation of program partitions on multi-core platforms, 2016 26th International Workshop on Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation (PATMOS)

Marco Mattavelli, Simone Casale Brunet, Endri Bezati, Malgorzata Maria Michalska, Junaid Jameel Ahmad

The exploration of different design configurations of dynamic dataflow programs executed on many-core or multi-core platforms is, in general, a very difficult task. Determining a close-to-optimal partitioning, scheduling and buffer dimensioning configurati ...

2017

High level synthesis of Smith-Waterman dataflow implementations

Marco Mattavelli, Simone Casale Brunet, Endri Bezati

The paper presents the results of design explorations for the implementation of the Smith-Waterman (S-W) algorithm executing DNA and protein sequences alignment. Both design explorations studies and the corresponding FPGA implementations are obtained by wr ...

2017