The next decade of computing will be dominated by embedded systems, information appliances and application specific computers. In order to build these systems, designers will need high-level compilation and CAD tools that generate architectures that eectively meet the needs of each application. In this paper we present a novel compilation system that allows sequential programs, written in C or FORTRAN, to be compiled directly into custom silicon or reconfigurable architectures.
The semiconductor industry roadmap projects that advances in VLSI technology will permit more than one billion transistors on a chip by the year 2010. The MIT Raw microprocessor is a proposed architecture that strives to exploit these chip-level resources by implementing thousands of tiles, each comprising a processing element and a small amount of memory, coupled by a static two-dimensional interconnect. A compiler partitions negrain instruction-level parallelism across the tiles and statically schedules inter-tile communication over the interconnect.
