MultiSky: Dynamic Resource Allocation Framework for High-Throughput CGRA Multitask Execution
Yufei Yang, Chenhao Xie, Rui Wang, Liansheng Liu, Xiyuan Peng, Yu Peng · IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems · 2025
Coarse-grained reconfigurable arrays (CGRAs) offer a promising balance between high performance and flexibility, yet dynamic resource allocation in multi-task scenarios remains challenging due to unpredictable task creation/destruction. Existing static approaches lack flexibility, while dynamic methods suffer from high latency or limited applicability. This paper presents MultiSky, a framework for CGRA multi-task dynamic resource allocation, combining a hardware controller and a software pre-mapper. The hardware controller dynamically allocates resources within hundreds of cycles by calculating tile allocation for each task via weighted averaging, and generating tile shapes using a lightweight heuristic algorithm. The software pre-mapper employs incremental compilation to pre-generate configurations, avoiding online transformation overhead. Evaluations on a real-world multi-task scenario demonstrate that MultiSky achieves 1.72× higher throughput than baselines by maintaining 82.7% average resource utilization. The framework scales efficiently with larger CGRAs and task counts, with hardware overhead decreasing to 1% for 16×16 CGRAs. These results highlight MultiSky’s ability to balance flexibility, efficiency, and practicality in dynamic computing environments.