SPR: an architecture-adaptive CGRA mapping tool

In this paper we present SPR, a new architecture-adaptive mapping tool for use with Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architectures (CGRAs). It combines a VLIW style scheduler and FPGA style placement and pipelined routing algorithms with novel mechanisms for integrating and adapting the algorithms to CGRAs. We introduce a latency padding technique that provides feedback from the placer to the scheduler to meet the constraints of a fixed frequency device with configurable interconnect. Using a new dynamic clustering method during placement, we achieved a 1.3x improvement in throughput of mapped designs. Finally, we introduce an enhancement to the PathFinder algorithm for targeting architectures with a mix of dynamically multiplexed and statically configurable interconnects. The enhanced algorithm is able to successfully share statically configured interconnect in a time-multiplexed way, achieving an average channel width reduction of .5x compared to non-shared static interconnect.