Aims to provide the block architecture of CoStar3400 DSP that is a high performance, low power and scalable VLIW DSP core, it efficiently deployed a variable-length execution set (VLES) execution model which utilizes ...Aims to provide the block architecture of CoStar3400 DSP that is a high performance, low power and scalable VLIW DSP core, it efficiently deployed a variable-length execution set (VLES) execution model which utilizes the maximum parallelism by allowing multiple address generations and data arithmetic logic units to execute multiple instructions in a single clock cycle. The scalability was provided mainly in using more or less number of functional units according to the intended application. Low power support was added by careful architectural design techniques such as fine-grain clock gating and activation of only the required number of control signals at each stage of the pipeline. The said features of the core make it a suitable candidate for many SoC configurations, especially for compute intensive applications such as wire-line and wireless communications, including infrastructure and subscriber communications. The embedded system designers can efficiently use the scalability and VLIW features of the core by scaling the number of execution units according to specific needs of the application to effectively reduce the power consumption, chip area and time to market the intended final product.展开更多
低密度奇偶校验(Low-Density Parity-Check,LDPC)码是第五代移动通信技术(5th Generation Mobile Communication Technology,5G)系统采用的信道编码技术之一,用于业务信道高速数据传输,具有很强的抗干扰能力和纠错能力。5G-LDPC码编译...低密度奇偶校验(Low-Density Parity-Check,LDPC)码是第五代移动通信技术(5th Generation Mobile Communication Technology,5G)系统采用的信道编码技术之一,用于业务信道高速数据传输,具有很强的抗干扰能力和纠错能力。5G-LDPC码编译码在嵌入式平台的实现是一个值得关注的研究方向。CEVA-XC4500数字信号处理(Digital Signal Processing,DSP)芯片具有极低功耗、高密度计算、集成了超长指令字(Very Long Instruction Word,VLIW)和单指令多数据(Single Instruction Multiple Data,SIMD)矢量功能的特点。针对CEVA-XC4500 DSP矢量汇编指令和内联指令集的特点,提出一系列针对5G-LDPC码编码的代码优化方法,使其满足5G-LDPC码编码工程应用指标要求。仿真结果表明,优化后的5G-LDPC码编码在CEVA-XC4500 DSP内核上表现良好,中长块编码吞吐率超过100 Mb/s、核心矩阵吞吐率超过1 Gb/s,最大吞吐率达到250 Mb/s、最大核心矩阵吞吐率达到1.6 Gb/s。如果CEVA-XC4500 DSP芯片的最大数据位宽将来能进一步增大,吞吐率可以做得更好。该5G-LDPC码编码的代码优化方法为其他信道编码在类似嵌入式平台的实现提供了参考。展开更多
The cost of the central register file and the size of the program code limit the scalability of very long instruction word（VLIW） processors with increasing numbers of functional units.This paper presents the archite...The cost of the central register file and the size of the program code limit the scalability of very long instruction word（VLIW） processors with increasing numbers of functional units.This paper presents the architectural design of a six-way VLIW digital signal processor（DSP） with clustered register files.The architecture uses a variable length instruction set and supports dynamic instruction dispatching.The one-level memory system architecture of the processor includes 16-KB instruction and data caches and 16-KB instruction and data on-chip RAM.A compiler based on the Open64 was developed for the system.Evaluations show that the processor is suitable for high performance applications with a high code density and small program code size.展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.60425413)COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan
文摘Aims to provide the block architecture of CoStar3400 DSP that is a high performance, low power and scalable VLIW DSP core, it efficiently deployed a variable-length execution set (VLES) execution model which utilizes the maximum parallelism by allowing multiple address generations and data arithmetic logic units to execute multiple instructions in a single clock cycle. The scalability was provided mainly in using more or less number of functional units according to the intended application. Low power support was added by careful architectural design techniques such as fine-grain clock gating and activation of only the required number of control signals at each stage of the pipeline. The said features of the core make it a suitable candidate for many SoC configurations, especially for compute intensive applications such as wire-line and wireless communications, including infrastructure and subscriber communications. The embedded system designers can efficiently use the scalability and VLIW features of the core by scaling the number of execution units according to specific needs of the application to effectively reduce the power consumption, chip area and time to market the intended final product.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.60236020)the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of MOE,China (No.20050003083)
文摘The cost of the central register file and the size of the program code limit the scalability of very long instruction word（VLIW） processors with increasing numbers of functional units.This paper presents the architectural design of a six-way VLIW digital signal processor（DSP） with clustered register files.The architecture uses a variable length instruction set and supports dynamic instruction dispatching.The one-level memory system architecture of the processor includes 16-KB instruction and data caches and 16-KB instruction and data on-chip RAM.A compiler based on the Open64 was developed for the system.Evaluations show that the processor is suitable for high performance applications with a high code density and small program code size.
