Domain-specific language and compiler for stencil computation on FPGA-based systolic computational-memory array

Abstract

This paper presents a domain-specific language for stencil computation (DSLSC) and its compiler for our FPGA-based systolic computational-memory array (SCMA). In DSLSC, we can program stencil computations by describing their mathematical form instead of writing explicit procedure optimally. The compiler automatically parallelizes stencil computations for processing elements (PEs) of SCMA, and schedules multiply-and-add operations for PEs considering data-reference delay via a local memory or communication FIFOs between PEs. For arbitrary grid-sizes of 2D Jacobi compilation with 3x3 and 5x5 stencils, the compiler achieves high utilization of PEs, 85.6 % and 92.18 %, which are close to 87.5 % and 93.75 % for ideal cases, respectively. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.