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In contrast to general purpose microprocessors, ASIP give much higher performance, lower power, and lower silicon costs because of the optimized application specific instruction set and microarchitecture.

ASIP research is a challenging area. The required knowledge for ASIP research is broad, ranging from applications, architecture selection, code compiling, parallel programming, microarchitecture, down to silicon fabrication. Our research demonstrates state-of-the-art ASIP concept designs. Our main academic interests include exploration of extreme performance with specific flexibility, low silicon cost, and low power architectures.

We focus on DSP (digital signal processor) and multiple processors including integration (SoCBUS) and hardware dependent programming issues. NPU (network processor unit) is also one of our research areas. To support the architecture design, ASIP design tools are continually developed for two purposes; microarchitecture synthesis and source code analysis. Source code analysis tool will explore design space by exposing data and program locality, opportunities of parallelization, and efficient parallel access of scratch pad memories. Applications covered by our research are radio baseband signal processing and other streaming signal processing.


Brief description of finished projects

NoGAP

Novel Generator of Accelerators and Processors

(Per, Wenbiao, and Dake) To design a processor synthesizer to generate RTL codes, assembler, simulator, and compiler without template constriantis of an instruction set

MultiBase

an EU project of FP7 with Infineon, Ericsson, Lund University, TU-Leuven, and IMEC

(Andreas E. Di, Johan, Rizwan, Guoyou, and Dake) To design a programmable platform for radio baseband signal processing of future mobile handset

Profiler

C-source code profilier for ASIP design

(Dake) To design a tool to speed up understanding of execution behaviors of applications.

FlexFEC

A SIMD processor for forward error correction

(Ali and Dake) To design an silicon efficient programmable FEC supporting Viterbi, Turbo, RS, and LDPC.

DSP platform for functional acceleration

(Dake and Andreas) A DSP platform for functional acceleration.

Programmable Radio Baseband Processor for UMA

(Eric, Anders, and Dake) Algorithm/architecture co-design for multi-standard radio technologies for cost and energy efficiency

Programmable Radio Baseband Processor for 4G and broadcasting handset

(Anders, Eric, and Dake) Algorithm/architecture co-design for multi-standard radio technologies for cost and energy efficiency

Master-SIMD DSP processor for multi-media applications

(Di, Andreas, Per, Johan, and Dake) To target an efficient and intelligent memory subsystem and its processor

Low latency network processor for core routing

(Tomas, Ulf, and Dake) Latency is the cost of memory in a router. We minimize the total cost in router by minimize de-packaging and routing latency.

Parallel DSP Processor for SAR

(Johan, Di, and Dake) To target on instruction set and an efficient and intelligent memory subsystem with large matrix transpose

SoCBUS: A packet connected system on chip circuit network

(Daniel and Dake) A system on chip connection network with minimum connection and data latency for a system without master.


Informationsansvarig: Anders Nilsson
Senast uppdaterad: 2014-01-28