Paper Archive

Papers for 18/10/2006

• File:Wolf.pdf
• File:Paulin.pdf
• File:Hydra ASPLOS VII.pdf

Papers for 26/10/2006

• File:ParallelComputing.ppt - The .ppt file for today's presentation
• File:Simple create.c - Example POSIX Thread Program

• File:Ecos-ref.pdf - The reference manual for the Ecos run time system
• File:Embedfuture.pdf - What's ahead for Embedded Software
• File:Compmodels.ppt - State Machine and Concurrent Process Models for Embedded Systems

Papers for 01/11/2006

Holiday, no class

Slides for 08/11/2006

Slides that will be presented in class

• File:Cache.pdf - Introduction to Caches

Papers for 15/11/2006

• File:Mpcaching.pdf - Introduction to Multiprocessors and Snoopy caches

Additional Reading Materials Here is a link to Veljko Milutinovic's web page on Caching for SMP http://galeb.etf.bg.ac.yu/~vm/tutorial/micro/smp/smp.htm

• File:Git.pdf - Supporting Cache Coherence in Heterogeneous Multiprocessor Systems
• File:Loghi.pdf - Cache Coherence Trade-offs in Shared Memory MPSoC's

Papers for 22/11/2006

• File:Globaldir.pdf - Slides on Global Directory Caching for NUMA
• File:Synch.pdf - Synchronization Primitives for Multiprocessors

Papers for 29/11/2006

• File:Extensible.pdf - Slides for Lecture Covering the Following Papers

Here are a set of selected papers from the 6th International Forum on Application-Specific Multi-Processor SoC Link to the form at http://tima.fr/MPSoC/2006/index.html. Re-read *File:Paulin.pdf - Emerging Challenges for MPSoC Platforms to refresh trends in homogenous and heterogeneous processors for MPSoCs.

• File:Rowen.pdf - The Reinvention of the Microprocessor for MPSoC, Chris Rowen, Tensilica
• File:Goossens G.pdf - ASIPs as a Cornerstone of Heterogeneous MPSoCs: What, Why, and How ? Gert Goossens, CEO, Target Compiler Technologies

Papers for 6/12/2006

This lecture continues from the discussions of extensible processors. Here we will loop at how parallelism is extracted from within a high level language.

• File:Parallelism.pdf - Slides for Lecture Covering the Following Papers
• File:Ienne.pdf - Automatic Instruction-Set Specialisation, Paolo Ienne, EPFL Switzerland
• File:Hauser97garp.pdf - GARP A MIPS Processor with Reconfigurable Coprocessor
• File:Ilp4rc fpl98.pdf - Instruction Level Parallelism for Reconfigurable Computing
• File:Lcpc2001.final.pdf - DEFACTO C synthesis Tool

Additional C to HDL Translator Work

• File:Nios.pdf - Altera's NIOS C to HDL translator

Papers for 13/12/2006

A Link to Dr. Daniel Gajski's Introduction to System Design Level Synthesis. http://www.ics.uci.edu/~gajski/presentation/GajskYokohama.pdf The Description of the SpeC Language http://www.ics.uci.edu/~specc/methodology.pdf Automatic Network Generation for System-On-Chip Communication Design, S. Shin, A. Gerstlauer, R. Domer, D. Gajski, Proceedings of the International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis, sept. 2005. http://www.ics.uci.edu/~cad/publications/conferences/2005-09/codes05.scnr.pdf

• File:Jerrayawolf.pdf - Hardware/Software Interface Codesign for Embedded Systems, A. Jerraya, W. Wolf, IEEE Computer, 2005
• File:Cesarioetal.pdf - Multiprocessor SoC Platforms: A Component-Based Design Approach

Papers for 20/12/2006

• File:Vuletic1.pdf - Seamless Hardware - Software Integration in Reconfigurable Computing Systems
• File:Vuletic2.pdf - Programming Transparency and Portable Hardware Interfacing: Towards General-Purpose Reconfigurable Computing
• File:Andrews1.pdf - Enabling A Uniform Programming Model Across the Hardware/Software Boundary
• File:Andrews2.pdf - Programming Models for Hybrid CPU/FPGA Computational Components - A Missing Link