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Synchronizing Code Execution on Ultra-Low-Power Embedded Multi-Channel Signal Analysis Platforms

Dogan, Ahmed Yasir  
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Braojos Lopez, Ruben  
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Constantin, Jeremy Hugues-Felix  
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2013
2013 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE)
The Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), 2013

Embedded biosignal analysis involves a considerable amount of parallel computations, which can be exploited by employing low-voltage and ultra-low-power (ULP) parallel computing architectures. By allowing data and instruction broadcasting, single instruction multiple data (SIMD) processing paradigm enables considerable power savings and application speedup, in turn allowing for a lower voltage supply for a given workload. The state-of-the-art multi-core architectures for biosignal analysis however lack a bare, yet smart, synchronization technique among the cores, allowing lockstep execution of algorithm parts that can be performed using the SIMD, even in the presence of data-dependent execution flows. In this paper, we propose a lightweight synchronization technique to enhance an ULP multi-core processor, resulting in improved energy efficiency through lockstep SIMD execution. Our results show that the proposed improvements accomplish tangible power savings, up to 64% for an 8-core system operating at a workload of 89 MOps/s while exploiting voltage scaling.

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