Memory streaming acceleration for embedded systems with CPU-accelerator cooperative data processing
- Authors
- Lee, Kwangho; Kong, Joonho; Kim, Young Geun; Chung, Sung Woo
- Issue Date
- 11월-2019
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER
- Keywords
- Heterogeneous computing; Accelerator; Stream operation; Direct memory access; Cooperative data transfer
- Citation
- MICROPROCESSORS AND MICROSYSTEMS, v.71
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- MICROPROCESSORS AND MICROSYSTEMS
- Volume
- 71
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/61994
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.micpro.2019.102897
- ISSN
- 0141-9331
- Abstract
- Memory streaming operations (i.e., memory-to-memory data transfer with or without simple arithmetic/logical operations) are one of the most important tasks in general embedded/mobile computer systems. In this paper, we propose a technique to accelerate memory streaming operations. The conventional way to accelerate memory streaming operations is employing direct memory access (DMA) with dedicated hardware accelerators for simple arithmetic/logical operations. In our technique, we utilize not only a hardware accelerator with DMA but also a central processing unit (CPU) to perform memory streaming operations, which improves the performance and energy efficiency of the system. We also implemented our prototype in a field-programmable gate array system-on-chip (FPGA-SoC) platform and evaluated our technique in real measurement from our prototype. From our experimental results, our technique improves memory streaming performance by 34.1-73.1% while reducing energy consumption by 29.0-45.5%. When we apply our technique to various real-world applications such as image processing, 1 x 1 convolution operations, and bias addition/scale, performances are improved by 1.1 x -2.4 x. In addition, our technique reduces energy consumptions when performing image processing, 1 x 1 convolution, and bias addition/scale by 7.9-17.7%, 46.8-57.7%, and 41.7-58.5%, respectively. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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