Uniformization tool for systolic array designs

Manjunathaiah, M., Megson, G., Rajopadhye, S. and Risset, T., (2000) Uniformization tool for systolic array designs. Rapport de Recherche. 1350. Technical Report. Irisa, Rennes, France.

Abstract/Summary

The paper is concerned with the uniformization of a system of affine recurrence equations. This transformation is used in the design (or compilation) of highly parallel embedded systems (VLSI systolic arrays, signal processing filters, etc.). We present and implement an automatic system to achieve uniformization of systems of affine recurrence equations. We unify the results from many earlier papers, develop some theoretical extensions, and then propose effective uniformization algorithms. Our results can be used in any high level synthesis tool based on polyhedral representation of nested loop computations.