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Single-Chip Heterogeneous Computing: Does the Future Include Custom Logic, FPGAs, and GPGPUs?

Eric S. Chung, Peter A. Milder, James C. Hoe, Ken Mai
Computer Architecture Laboratory (CALCM), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
43rd Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2010

@conference{chung2010single,

   title={Single-Chip Heterogeneous Computing: Does the Future Include Custom Logic, FPGAs, and GPGPUs?},

   author={Chung, E.S. and Milder, P.A. and Hoe, J.C. and Mai, K.},

   booktitle={Proceedings of the 2010 43rd Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture},

   pages={225–236},

   year={2010},

   organization={IEEE Computer Society}

}

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To extend the exponential performance scaling of future chip multiprocessors, improving energy efficiency has become a first-class priority. Single-chip heterogeneous computing has the potential to achieve greater energy efficiency by combining traditional processors with unconventional cores (U-cores) such as custom logic, FPGAs, or GPGPUs. Although U-cores are effective at increasing performance, their benefits can also diminish given the scarcity of projected bandwidth in the future. To understand the relative merits between different approaches in the face of technology constraints, this work builds on prior modeling of heterogeneous multicores to support U-cores. Unlike prior models that trade performance, power, and area using well-known relationships between simple and complex processors, our model must consider the less-obvious relationships between conventional processors and a diverse set of U-cores. Further, our model supports speculation of future designs from scaling trends predicted by the ITRS road map. The predictive power of our model depends upon U-core-specific parameters derived by measuring performance and power of tuned applications on today’s state-of-the-art multicores, GPUs, FPGAs, and ASICs. Our results reinforce some current-day understandings of the potential and limitations of U-cores and also provides new insights on their relative merits.
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