doi: 10.7873/DATE.2015.0798


Interplay of Loop Unrolling and Multidimensional Memory Partitioning in HLS


Alessandro Cilardoa and Luca Gallob

Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, University of Naples Federico II via Claudio 21, Italy.

aacilardo@unina.it
bluca.gallo@unina.it

ABSTRACT

This paper deals with memory partitioning in the context of high-level synthesis for FPGA technologies. In particular, the work focuses on the area overhead caused by partitioning and sheds light on the interplay with a technique commonly used in HLS, i.e., loop unrolling. As a practical outcome, the study proposes a solution to reduce the area overhead by appropriately controlling the degree of loop unrolling. The experimental results confirm the significance of the analysis as well as the effectiveness of the proposed optimization technique.



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