@article{CorreDiguetHelleretal.2016, author = {Corre, Youenn and Diguet, Jean-Philippe and Heller, Dominique and Blouin, Dominique and Lagadec, Loic}, title = {TBES: Template-Based Exploration and Synthesis of Heterogeneous Multiprocessor Architectures on FPGA}, series = {ACM transactions on embedded computing systems : TECS}, volume = {15}, journal = {ACM transactions on embedded computing systems : TECS}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, address = {New York}, issn = {1539-9087}, doi = {10.1145/2816817}, pages = {113 -- 122}, year = {2016}, abstract = {This article describes TBES, a software end-to-end environment for synthesizing multitask applications on FPGAs. The implementation follows a template-based approach for creating heterogeneous multiprocessor architectures. Heterogeneity stems from the use of general-purpose processors along with custom accelerators. Experimental results demonstrate substantial speedup for several classes of applications. In addition to the use of architecture templates for the overall system, a second contribution lies in using high-level synthesis for promoting exploration of hardware IPs. The domain expert, who best knows which tasks are good candidates for hardware implementation, selects parts of the initial application to be potentially synthesized as dedicated accelerators. As a consequence, the HLS general problem turns into a constrained and more tractable issue, and automation capabilities eliminate the need for tedious and error-prone manual processes during domain space exploration. The automation only takes place once the application has been broken down into concurrent tasks by the designer, who can then drive the synthesis process with a set of parameters provided by TBES to balance tradeoffs between optimization efforts and quality of results. The approach is demonstrated step by step up to FPGA implementations and executions with an MJPEG benchmark and a complex Viola-Jones face detection application. We show that TBES allows one to achieve results with up to 10 times speedup to reduce development times and to widen design space exploration.}, language = {en} } @book{BeyhlBlouinGieseetal.2016, author = {Beyhl, Thomas and Blouin, Dominique and Giese, Holger and Lambers, Leen}, title = {On the operationalization of graph queries with generalized discrimination networks}, number = {106}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-86956-372-5}, issn = {1613-5652}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-96279}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {33}, year = {2016}, abstract = {Graph queries have lately gained increased interest due to application areas such as social networks, biological networks, or model queries. For the relational database case the relational algebra and generalized discrimination networks have been studied to find appropriate decompositions into subqueries and ordering of these subqueries for query evaluation or incremental updates of query results. For graph database queries however there is no formal underpinning yet that allows us to find such suitable operationalizations. Consequently, we suggest a simple operational concept for the decomposition of arbitrary complex queries into simpler subqueries and the ordering of these subqueries in form of generalized discrimination networks for graph queries inspired by the relational case. The approach employs graph transformation rules for the nodes of the network and thus we can employ the underlying theory. We further show that the proposed generalized discrimination networks have the same expressive power as nested graph conditions.}, language = {en} }