Stefan Hauser

Research

SynZEN: A Hybrid TTA/VLIW Architecture with a Distributed Register File
Citation key	HaMoJu2012
Author	Stefan Hauser and Nico Moser and Ben Juurlink
Year	2012
ISBN	978-1-4673-2221-8
DOI	10.1109/NORCHP.2012.6403142
Journal	NORCHIP
Volume	2012
Abstract	The quest for higher performance within a certain power in the fields of demands unconventional architectural approaches. To this end, in this paper we present synZEN (sZ): a (micro-)architecture that combines features of very long instruction word (VLIW) and transport triggered architectures (TTAs) to cover the needs of different applications. SynZEN features a distributed register file (RF) (i.e., each functional unit (FU) has its own RF) and a wide memory connection to exploit spatial data locality. FPGA synthesis results demonstrate that due to the distributed RF the sZ design can be implemented in less area (in terms of FPGA slices) than existing TTA and VLIW designs. Furthermore, using two micro-benchmarks we show that because of the wide memory connection, sZ outperforms both the TTA as well as the VLIW design.

Courses
Hardware-Praktikum (PR)	WS 2013/2014
Hardware-Praktikum (PR)	SS 2013
Embedded Systems Architecture (PR)	WS 2012/2013
Hardware-Praktikum (PR)	WS 2012/2013
Hardware-Praktikum (PR)	SS 2012
Hardware-Praktikum (PR)	WS 2011/2012
Hardware-Praktikum (PR)	SS 2011
Hardware-Praktikum (PR)	WS 2010/2011
Technische Grundlagen der Informatik 2 TI: Digitale Systeme - Praktikum (PR)	SS 2010
Technische Grundlagen der Informatik 2 TI: Digitale Systeme - Praktikum (PR)	SS 2009
Technische Grundlagen der Informatik 1: Digitale Systeme (TUT)	WS 2008/2009
Technische Grundlagen der Informatik 2: Rechnerorganisation (TUT)	SS 2008
Einführung in die Informatik II (Technikorientierung) (TUT)	SS 2008
Technische Grundlagen der Informatik 1: Digitale Systeme (TUT)	WS 2007/2008
Einführung in die Informatik I (Technikorientierung) (TUT)	WS 2007/2008
Einführung in die Informatik II (Technikorientierung) (TUT)	SS 2007
Einführung in die Informatik I (Technikorientierung) (TUT)	WS 2006/2007
Informatik II für Elektrotechniker (TUT)	SS 2006
Informatik I für Elektrotechniker (TUT)	WS 2005/2006

supervised Theses
Bachelor Thesis - Automatic Code Generation for a Microblaze system with ARM NEON SIMD Acceleration (Ilias - Timon Poulaki) - WS 2013/14
Bachelor Thesis - Instruktionskompression für die synZEN Architektur (Tammo J. Herbert) - WS 2013/14
Bachelor Thesis - Design and Implementation of an ARM NEON compatible SIMD Accelerator for the Microblaze Architecture (Matthias Göbel) - WS 2011/12
Bachelorarbeit - Entwurf und Programmierung einer applikationspezifischen synZEN-Instanz für den CABAC Algorithmus (Fabian Schulz) - SS2011
Bachelor Thesis - Design and Implementation of a TTA-compliant Cache with Parallel Read Access (Marcus Mikulcak) - WS 2010/11