PhD defense of Calin Glitia
By bop on Wednesday, November 25 2009, 10:32 - Permalink
On Monday, November 23, Calin Glitia successfully defended his PhD, entitled "Optimisation des applications de traitement systématique intensives sur system-on-chip". You can download the manuscript (in French) and the slides (in English).
Abstract. Intensive signal processing applications appear in many application domains such as video processing or detection systems. These applications handle multidimensional data structures (mainly arrays) to deal with the various dimensions of the data (space, time, frequency). A specification language allowing the direct manipulation of these different dimensions with a high level of abstraction is a key to handling the complexity of these applications and to benefit from their massive
potential parallelism. The Array-OL specification language is designed to do just that.
In this thesis, we introduce an extension of Array-OL to express cycle dependences by the way of uniform inter-repetition dependences. We show that this specification language is able to express the main patterns of computation of the intensive signal processing domain. We discuss also the repetitive modeling of parallel applications, repetitive architectures and uniform mappings of the former to the latter, using the Array-OL concepts integrated into the Modeling and Analysis of Real-time and Embedded systems (MARTE) UML profile.
High-level data-parallel transformations are available to adapt the application to the execution, allowing to choose the granularity of the flows and a simple expression of the mapping by tagging each repetition by its execution mode : data-parallel or sequential. The whole set of transformations was reviewed, extended and implemented as a
part of the Gaspard2 co-design environment for embedded systems.
With the introduction of the uniform dependences into the specification, our interest turns also on the interaction between these dependences and the high-level transformations. This is essential in order to enable the usage of the refactoring tools on the models with uniform dependences.
Based on the high-level refactoring tools, strategies and heuristics can be designed to help explore the design space. We propose a strategy that allows to find good trade-offs in the usage of storage and computation resources, and in the parallelism (both task and data parallelism) exploitation, strategy illustrated on an industrial radar application.
