Weave: Abstraction for Accelerator Integration of Generated Modules
Tuo Dai, Bizhao Shi, Guojie Luo · 2023
As domain-specific accelerators demand multiple functional components for complex applications in a domain, the conventional wisdom for effective development involves module decomposition, module implementation, and module integration. In the recent decade, the generator-based design methodology improves the productivity of module implementation. However, with the guidance of current abstractions, it is difficult to integrate modules implemented by generators because of implicit interface definition, non-unified performance modeling, and fragmented memory management. These disadvantages cause low productivity of the integration flow and low performance of the integrated accelerators.