Integrated Offset Assignment
Year: 2011
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: One important part of generating code for DSP processors is to make good use of the address generation unit (AGU). In this paper we divide the code generation into three parts: (1) scheduling, (2) address register assignment, and (3) storage layout. The goal is to nd out if solving these three subproblems as one big integrated problem gives better results compared to when scheduling or address register assignment is solved separately. We present optimal dynamic programming algorithms for both integrated and non-integrated code generation for DSP processors. In our experiments we nd that integrationis benecial when the AGU has 1 or 2 address registers; for the other cases existing heuristics are near optimal. We also nd that integrating address register assignment and storage layout gives slightly better results than integrating scheduling and storage layout. I.e. address register assignment is more important than scheduling.
Authors: Mattias Eriksson, Christoph Keßler
Language: English
Subfield: Hardware and Architecture
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W217472528