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Record W2585272274 · doi:10.1145/3020078.3021729

Synchronization Constraints for Interconnect Synthesis

2017· article· en· W2585272274 on OpenAlexaff
Alex Rodionov, Jonathan Rose

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicEmbedded Systems Design Techniques
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceField-programmable gate arraySynchronization (alternating current)Latency (audio)FIFO (computing and electronics)InterconnectionInteger programmingHigh-level synthesisEmbedded systemScheduling (production processes)Computer architectureDistributed computingParallel computingComputer hardwareComputer networkEngineeringChannel (broadcasting)Algorithm

Abstract

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Interconnect synthesis tools ease the burden on the designer by automatically generating and optimizing communication hardware. In this paper we propose a novel capability for FPGA interconnect synthesis tools that further simplifies the designer's effort: automatic cycle-level synchronization of data delivery. This capability enables the creation of interconnect with significantly reduced hardware cost, provided that communicating modules have fixed latency and do not apply upstream backpressure. To do so, the designer specifies constraints on the lengths, in clock cycles, of multi-hop logical communication paths. The tool then uses an integer programming-based method to insert balancing registers into optimal locations, satisfying the designer's constraints while minimizing register usage. On an example convolutional neural network application, the new approach uses 43% less area than a FIFO-based synchronization scheme.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.010
Threshold uncertainty score0.034

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.002
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0100.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.035
GPT teacher head0.301
Teacher spread0.266 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2017
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