Abstract
This paper presents a framework to design a shared memory multiprocessor on a programmable platform. We propose a complete flow, composed by a programming model and a template architecture. Our framework permits to write a parallel application by using a shared memory model. It deals with the consistency of shared data, with no need of hardware coherence protocol, but uses a software model to properlyallsynchronize the local copies with the shared memory image. This idea can be applied both to a scratchpad-based architecture or a cache-based one. The architecture is synthesizable with standard IPs, such as the softcores and interconnect elements, which may be found in any commercial FPGA toolset.
Gianluca Palermo
Full Professor
Gianluca Palermo received the M.Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering in 2002, and the Ph.D degree in Computer Engineering in 2006 from Politecnico di Milano. He is currently an associate professor at Department of Electronics and Information Technology in the same University. Previously he was also consultant engineer in the Low Power Design Group of AST – STMicroelectronics working on network on-chip and research assistant at the Advanced Learning and Research Institute (ALaRI) of the Università della Svizzera italiana (Switzerland). His research interests include design methodologies and architectures for embedded and HPC systems, focusing on AutoTuning aspects.