IC Colloquium - Constructive Computer Architecture: A New Approach to R & D of Digital Systems
Event details
| Date | 25.11.2013 |
| Hour | 16:15 › 17:30 |
| Speaker | Arvind - Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Abstract:
There is unprecedented need for special-purpose hardware – driven primarily by power constraints of mobile devices. Special purpose hardware can save two to three orders of magnitude in power over pure software solutions, and unlike the old days the hardware-software interface is now a constantly moving boundary. The risks of designing such HW-SW systems can be mitigated substantially if one can build a fast, accurate and flexible prototype of the system quickly. For this architectural renaissance we need a new constructive design methodology which requires (1) Reusing complex blocks designed by domain expertise; (2) Experimenting with designs to achieve goals such as cost, performance, and power; and (3) Conducting high-fidelity full system simulation, including software. We will illustrate such a methodology using some of our recent projects, which include AirBlue (a wireless baseband processing system), H.264, Sparse FFT, BlueDBM (a 16-node machines with programmable Flash controllers), and Arete (a FPGA-based cycle-accurate High-performance Mulicore Simulator).
Biography:
Arvind is the Johnson Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT. Arvind’s group, in collaboration with Motorola, built the Monsoon dataflow machines and its associated software in the late eighties. In 2000, Arvind started Sandburst which was sold to Broadcom in 2006. In 2003, Arvind co-founded Bluespec Inc., an EDA company to produce a set of tools for high-level synthesis. In 2001, Dr. R. S. Nikhil and Arvind published the book "Implicit parallel programming in pH". Arvind's current research focus is on enabling rapid development of embedded systems.
Arvind is a Fellow of IEEE and ACM, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
There is unprecedented need for special-purpose hardware – driven primarily by power constraints of mobile devices. Special purpose hardware can save two to three orders of magnitude in power over pure software solutions, and unlike the old days the hardware-software interface is now a constantly moving boundary. The risks of designing such HW-SW systems can be mitigated substantially if one can build a fast, accurate and flexible prototype of the system quickly. For this architectural renaissance we need a new constructive design methodology which requires (1) Reusing complex blocks designed by domain expertise; (2) Experimenting with designs to achieve goals such as cost, performance, and power; and (3) Conducting high-fidelity full system simulation, including software. We will illustrate such a methodology using some of our recent projects, which include AirBlue (a wireless baseband processing system), H.264, Sparse FFT, BlueDBM (a 16-node machines with programmable Flash controllers), and Arete (a FPGA-based cycle-accurate High-performance Mulicore Simulator).
Biography:
Arvind is the Johnson Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT. Arvind’s group, in collaboration with Motorola, built the Monsoon dataflow machines and its associated software in the late eighties. In 2000, Arvind started Sandburst which was sold to Broadcom in 2006. In 2003, Arvind co-founded Bluespec Inc., an EDA company to produce a set of tools for high-level synthesis. In 2001, Dr. R. S. Nikhil and Arvind published the book "Implicit parallel programming in pH". Arvind's current research focus is on enabling rapid development of embedded systems.
Arvind is a Fellow of IEEE and ACM, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Practical information
- General public
- Free
- This event is internal
Contact
- Host : Paolo Ienne