Battery-Aware Task Mapping for Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architecture

Shouyi YIN  Rui SHI  Leibo LIU  Shaojun WEI  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems   Vol.E96-D   No.12   pp.2524-2535
Publication Date: 2013/12/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1361
DOI: 10.1587/transinf.E96.D.2524
Print ISSN: 0916-8532
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networking)
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Keyword: 
reconfigurable computing,  energy consumption,  task mapping,  battery nonlinear effect,  

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Summary: 
Coarse-grained Reconfigurable Architecture (CGRA) is a parallel computing platform that provides both high performance of hardware and high flexibility of software. It is becoming a promising platform for embedded and mobile applications. Since the embedded and mobile devices are usually battery-powered, improving battery lifetime becomes one of the primary design issues in using CGRAs. In this paper, we propose a battery-aware task-mapping method to optimize energy consumption and improve battery lifetime. The proposed method mainly addresses two problems: task partitioning and task scheduling when mapping applications onto CGRA. The task partitioning and scheduling are formulated as a joint optimization problem of minimizing the energy consumption. The nonlinear effects of real battery are taken into account in problem formulation. Using the insights from the problem formulation, we design the task-mapping algorithm. We have used several real-world benchmarks to test the effectiveness of the proposed method. Experiment results show that our method can dramatically lower the energy consumption and prolong the battery-life.