Determining objective functions in systolic array designs
C.N. Zhang, John Weston, Yichen Yan · IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems · 1994
The space-time mapping of the dependency matrix of an algorithm may be used to study proposed systolic array implementations. In this paper we consider nested loop structures and use the space-time mapping approach to examine six objective functions, processor pipelining rate, computation time, throughput, number of processing elements, geometric area and space utilization. An elementary expression for each of these objective functions is derived which depends only on the space-time transformation and the size of loops. Moreover, several necessary and sufficient conditions for optimizing an individual objective function are provided.>