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Processor Architectures and Program Mapping
TU/e 5kk10Henk Corporaal
Jef van Meerbergen
Bart Mesman
Exploiting ILPpart 1: VLIW architectures
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What are we talking about?
ILP = Instruction Level Parallelism =
ability to perform multiple operations (or instructions),from a single instruction stream,
in parallel
VLIW = Very Long Instruction Word architecture
operation 1 operation 2 operation 3 operation 4
Instruction format:
operation 5
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VLIW: Topics Overview
• Enhance performance: architecture methods
• Instruction Level Parallelism– Limits on ILP
• VLIW– Examples
• Clustering
• Code generation
• Hands-on
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Enhance performance: 3 architecture methods
• (Super)-pipelining
• Powerful instructions– MD-technique
• multiple data operands per operation
– MO-technique• multiple operations per instruction
• Multiple instruction issue
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Architecture methods
Pipelined Execution of InstructionsIF: Instruction Fetch
DC: Instruction Decode
RF: Register Fetch
EX: Execute instruction
WB: Write Result Register
IF DC RF EX WBIF DC RF EX WB
IF DC RF EX WBIF DC RF EX WB
INS
TR
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CYCLE
1 2 43 5 6 7 8
12
3
4
Purpose of pipelining:• Reduce #gate_levels in critical path• Reduce CPI close to one• More efficient Hardware
Problems• Hazards: pipeline stalls
• Structural hazards: add more hardware• Control hazards, branch penalties: use branch prediction• Data hazards: by passing required
Simple 5-stage pipeline
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Architecture methods
Pipelined Execution of Instructions
Superpipelining:
• Split one or more of the critical pipeline stages
*
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Architecture methods
Powerful Instructions (1)
MD-technique• Multiple data operands per operation• SIMD: Single Instruction Multiple Data
Vector instruction:
for (i=0, i++, i<64) c[i] = a[i] + 5*b[i];
c = a + 5*b
Assembly:
set vl,64ldv v1,0(r2)mulvi v2,v1,5ldv v1,0(r1)addv v3,v1,v2stv v3,0(r3)
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Architecture methods
Powerful Instructions (1)
SIMD computing• Nodes used for independent
operations
• Mesh or hypercube connectivity
• Exploit data locality of e.g. image processing applications
• Dense encoding (few instruction bits needed)
SIMD Execution Method
tim
e
Instruction 1
Instruction 2
Instruction 3
Instruction n
node1 node2 node-K
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Architecture methods
Powerful Instructions (1)
• Sub-word parallelism– SIMD on restricted scale:
– Used for Multi-media instructions
• Examples– MMX, SUN-VIS, HP MAX-2, AMD-
K7/Athlon 3Dnow, Trimedia II
– Example: i=1..4|ai-bi|
* * * *
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Architecture methods
Powerful Instructions (2)
MO-technique: multiple operations per instruction
• CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computer)
• VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word)
sub r8, r5, 3 and r1, r5, 12 mul r6, r5, r2 ld r3, 0(r5)
FU 1 FU 2 FU 3 FU 4field
instruction bnez r5, 13
FU 5
VLIW instruction example
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Architecture methods: Powerful Instructions (2)
VLIW Characteristics
• Only RISC like operation support Short cycle times
• Flexible: Can implement any FU mixture• Extensible• Tight inter FU connectivity required• Large instructions (up to 1000 bits)• Not binary compatible• But good compilers exist
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Architecture methods
Multiple instruction issue (per cycle)
Who guarantees semantic correctness?– can instructions be executed in parallel
• User specifies multiple instruction streams– MIMD (Multiple Instruction Multiple Data)
• Run-time detection of ready instructions– Superscalar
• Compile into dataflow representation– Dataflow processors
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Multiple instruction issue
Three Approaches
a := b + 15;
c := 3.14 * d;
e := c / f;
Translation to DDG (Data Dependence Graph)
ld
+
st
&b
15
&a
ld *
/ st
ld
st
&f 3.14
&e
&d
&c
Example code
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Generated Code
Instr. Sequential Code Dataflow Code I1 ld r1,M(&b) ld(M(&b) -> I2I2 addi r1,r1,15 addi 15 -> I3I3 st r1,M(&a) st M(&a)I4 ld r1,M(&d) ld M(&d) -> I5I5 muli r1,r1,3.14 muli 3.14 -> I6, I8I6 st r1,M(&c) st M(&c)I7 ld r2,M(&f) ld M(&f) -> I8I8 div r1,r1,r2 div -> I9I9 st r1,M(&e) st M(&e)
Notes:• An MIMD may execute two streams: (1) I1-I3 (2) I4-I9
– No dependencies between streams; in practice communication and synchronization required between streams
• A superscalar issues multiple instructions from sequential stream– Obey dependencies (True and name dependencies)
– Reverse engineering of DDG needed at run-time
• Dataflow code is direct representation of DDG
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Multiple Instruction Issue: Data flow processor
Token Matching
TokenStore
InstructionGenerate
InstructionStore
FU-1 FU-2 FU-K
Reservation Stations
Re
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Instruction Pipeline Overview
IF DC RF EX WB
IF DC/RF EX WB
CISC
RISC
IF1 DC1 RF1 EX1 ROBISSUE WB1
IF2 DC2 RF2 EX2 ROBISSUE WB2
IF3 DC3 RF3 EX3 ROBISSUE WB3
IFk DCk RFk EXk ROBISSUE WBk
Superscalar
IF1 IF2 IFs DC RF--- EX1 EX2 --- EX5 WBSuperpipelined
IF DC
RF1 EX1 WB1
RF2 EX2 WB2
RFk EXk WBk
VLIW
RF1 EX1 WB1
RF2 EX2 WB2
RFk EXk WBkD
AT
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LOW
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Four dimensional representation of the architecture design space <I, O, D, S>
Instructions/cycle ‘I’
Superpipelining Degree ‘S’
Operations/instruction ‘O’
Data/operation ‘D’
Superscalar MIMD Dataflow
Superpipelined
RISC
VLIW
10 100
1010
0.1
Vector
10
SIMD100
CISC
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Architecture design space
Architecture K I O D S MparCISC 1 0.2 1.2 1.1 1 0.26RISC 1 1 1 1 1.2 1.2VLIW 10 1 10 1 1.2 12Superscalar 3 3 1 1 1.2 3.6Superpipelined 1 1 1 1 3 3Vector 7 0.1 1 64 5 32SIMD 128 1 1 128 1.2 154MIMD 32 32 1 1 1.2 38Dataflow 10 10 1 1 1.2 12
Typical values of K (# of functional units or processor nodes), and
<I, O, D, S> for different architectures
Mpar = I*O*D*S
Op I_set
S(architecture) = f(Op) * lt (Op)
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Overview
• Enhance performance: architecture methods
• Instruction Level Parallelism– limits on ILP
• VLIW– Examples
• Clustering
• Code generation
• Hands-on
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General organization of an ILP architecture
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FU-1
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FU-5
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Motivation for ILP• Increasing VLSI densities; decreasing feature size
• Increasing performance requirements
• New application areas, like– multi-media (image, audio, video, 3-D)– intelligent search and filtering engines– neural, fuzzy, genetic computing
• More functionality
• Use of existing Code (Compatibility)
• Low Power: P = fCVdd2
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Low power through parallelism
• Sequential Processor– Switching capacitance C
– Frequency f
– Voltage V
– P = fCV2
• Parallel Processor (two times the number of units)– Switching capacitance 2C
– Frequency f/2
– Voltage V’ < V
– P = f/2 2C V’2 = fCV’2
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Measuring and exploiting available ILP
• How much ILP is there in applications?• How to measure parallelism within applications?
– Using existing compiler
– Using trace analysis• Track all the real data dependencies (RaWs) of instructions from issue
window
– register dependence
– memory dependence
• Check for correct branch prediction
– if prediction correct continue
– if wrong, flush schedule and start in next cycle
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Trace analysis
Program
For i := 0..2
A[i] := i;
S := X+3;
Compiled code
set r1,0
set r2,3
set r3,&A
Loop: st r1,0(r3)
add r1,r1,1
add r3,r3,4
brne r1,r2,Loop
add r1,r5,3
Trace
set r1,0
set r2,3
set r3,&A
st r1,0(r3)
add r1,r1,1
add r3,r3,4
brne r1,r2,Loop
st r1,0(r3)
add r1,r1,1
add r3,r3,4
brne r1,r2,Loop
st r1,0(r3)
add r1,r1,1
add r3,r3,4
brne r1,r2,Loop
add r1,r5,3How parallel can this code be executed?
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Trace analysis
Parallel Trace
set r1,0 set r2,3 set r3,&A
st r1,0(r3) add r1,r1,1 add r3,r3,4
st r1,0(r3) add r1,r1,1 add r3,r3,4 brne r1,r2,Loop
st r1,0(r3) add r1,r1,1 add r3,r3,4 brne r1,r2,Loop
brne r1,r2,Loop
add r1,r5,3
Max ILP = Speedup = Lparallel / Lserial = 16 / 6 = 2.7
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Ideal ProcessorAssumptions for ideal/perfect processor:
1. Register renaming – infinite number of virtual registers => all register WAW & WAR hazards avoided2. Branch and Jump prediction – Perfect => all program instructions available for execution3. Memory-address alias analysis – addresses are known. A store can be moved before a load provided addresses not equal
Also: – unlimited number of instructions issued/cycle (unlimited resources), and– unlimited instruction window– perfect caches– 1 cycle latency for all instructions (FP *,/)
Programs were compiled using MIPS compiler with maximum optimization level
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Upper Limit to ILP: Ideal Processor
Programs
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gcc espresso li fpppp doducd tomcatv
54.862.6
17.9
75.2
118.7
150.1
Integer: 18 - 60 FP: 75 - 150
IPC
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Program
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Perfect Selective predictor Standard 2-bit Static None
Window Size and Branch Impact• Change from infinite window to examine 2000
and issue at most 64 instructions per cycle FP: 15 - 45
Integer: 6 – 12
IPC
Perfect Tournament BHT(512) Profile No prediction
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Program
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Infinite 256 128 64 32 None
Impact of Limited Renaming Registers• Changes: 2000 instr. window, 64 instr. issue, 8K 2-level
predictor (slightly better than tournament predictor)
Integer: 5 - 15 FP: 11 - 45
IP
C
Infinite 256 128 64 32
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Program
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Perfect Global/stack Perfect Inspection None
Memory Address Alias Impact• Changes: 2000 instr. window, 64 instr. issue, 8K
2-level predictor, 256 renaming registers
FP: 4 - 45(Fortran,no heap)
Integer: 4 - 9
IPC
Perfect Global/stack perfect Inspection None
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Program
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gcc expresso li fpppp doducd tomcatv
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Infinite 256 128 64 32 16 8 4
Window Size Impact• Assumptions: Perfect disambiguation, 1K Selective predictor, 16
entry return stack, 64 renaming registers, issue as many as window
Integer: 6 - 12
FP: 8 - 45
IPC
Infinite 256 128 64 32 16 8 4
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How to Exceed ILP Limits of This Study?
• WAR and WAW hazards through memory: eliminated WAW and WAR hazards through register renaming, but not in memory
• Unnecessary dependences – compiler did not unroll loops so iteration variable
dependence• Overcoming the data flow limit: value prediction,
predicting values and speculating on prediction– Address value prediction and speculation predicts
addresses and speculates by reordering loads and stores. Could provide better aliasing analysis
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Conclusions
• Amount of parallelism is limited– higher in Multi-Media– higher in kernels
• Trace analysis detects all types of parallelism– task, data and operation types
• Detected parallelism depends on– quality of compiler– hardware– source-code transformations
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Overview• Enhance performance: architecture methods• Instruction Level Parallelism• VLIW
– Examples• C6
• TM
• IA-64: Itanium, ....
• TTA
• Clustering• Code generation• Hands-on
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VLIW concept
A VLIW architecture with 7 FUs
Int Register File
Instruction Memory
Int FU
Data Memory
Int FU Int FU LD/ST LD/ST FP FU
Floating PointRegister File
FP FU
Instruction register
Functionunits
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VLIW characteristics• Multiple operations per instruction• One instruction per cycle issued (at most)• Compiler is in control• Only RISC like operation support
– Short cycle times– Easier to compile for
• Flexible: Can implement any FU mixture• Extensible / Scalable
However: • tight inter FU connectivity required• not binary compatible !!
– (new long instruction format)
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VelociTIC6x
datapath
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VLIW example: TMS320C62
TMS320C62 VelociTI Processor
• 8 operations (of 32-bit) per instruction (256 bit)• Two clusters
– 8 Fus: 4 Fus / cluster : (2 Multipliers, 6 ALUs)– 2 x 16 registers– One bus available to write in register file of other cluster
• Flexible addressing modes (like circular addressing)
• Flexible instruction packing
• All instruction conditional
• 5 ns, 200 MHz, 0.25 um, 5-layer CMOS
• 128 KB on-chip RAM
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VLIW example: Trimedia
SDRAM
Timers
MemoryInterface
PCI interface
Video In Video Out
Audio In Audio Out
I2C Interface Serial Interface
VLIWProcessor
32K I$
16K D$VLD
coprocessor
32 bit, 33 MHZ
40 Mpix/s
208 chanel digital audio
Huffman decoder MPEG1,2
19 Mpix/s
Digital audio
• 5-issue• 128 registers• 27 FUs• 32-bit• 8-Way set associative caches• dual-ported data cache• guarded operations
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Intel Architecture IA-64
Explicit Parallel Instruction Computer (EPIC)• IA-64 architecture -> Itanium, first realization
Register model:• 128 64-bit int x bits, stack, rotating• 128 82-bit floating point, rotating• 64 1-bit boolean• 8 64-bit branch target address• system control registers
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EPIC Architecture: IA-64
• Instructions grouped in 128-bit bundles– 3 * 41-bit instruction– 5 template bits, indicate type and stop location
• Each 41-bit instruction – starts with 4-bit opcode, and – ends with 6-bit guard (boolean) register-id
• Supports speculative loads
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Itanium
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Itanium 2: McKinley
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EPIC Architecture: IA-64
• EPIC allows for more binary compatibility then a plain VLIW:– Function unit assignment performed at run-time– Lock when FU results not available
• See other website for more info on IA-64:– www.ics.ele.tue.nl/~heco/courses/ACA– (look at related material)
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VLIW evaluation
Strong points of VLIW:– Scalable (add more FUs)– Flexible (an FU can be almost anything; e.g. multimedia support)
Weak points:• With N FUs:
– Bypassing complexity: O(N2)– Register file complexity: O(N)– Register file size: O(N2)
• Register file design restricts FU flexibility
Solution: .................................................. ?
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VLIW evaluationIn
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FU-1
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FU-4
FU-5
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Control problem O(N2) O(N)-O(N2) With N function units
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Solution
TTA: Transport Triggered ArchitectureTTA: Transport Triggered Architecture
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Transport Triggered Architecture
General organization of a TTAIn
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fetc
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FU-1
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TTA structure; datapath details
Socket
integer RF
floatRF
booleanRF
instruct.unit
immediateunit
load/store unit
integer ALU
float ALU
integer ALU
load/store unit
Data Memory
Instruction Memory
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TTA hardware characteristics
• Modular: building blocks easy to reuse• Very flexible and scalable
– easy inclusion of Special Function Units (SFUs)
• Very low complexity– > 50% reduction on # register ports– reduced bypass complexity (no associative matching)– up to 80 % reduction in bypass connectivity– trivial decoding– reduced register pressure– easy register file partitioning (a single port is enough!)
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TTA software characteristics
• More difficult to schedule !• But: extra scheduling optimizations
add r3, r1, r2
r1 add.o1; r2 add.o2;
add.r r3
That does not look like an
improvement !?!
+o1 o2
r
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Scheduling example
add r1,r2,r2
sub r4,r1,95
VLIW
r1 -> add.o1, r2 -> add.o2
add.r -> sub.o1, 95 -> sub.o2
sub.r -> r4
TTA
integer RF
immediateunit
integer ALU
integer ALU
load/store unit
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move 1
Programming TTAs
How to use immediates?
Small, 6 bits
Long, 32 bits
g 1 imm dst
General MOVE field:g : guard specifieri : immediate specifiersrc : sourcedst : desitnation
g i src dst
g 0 Ir-1 dst imm
General MOVE instructions: multiple fields
move 2 move 3 move 4
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Programming TTAs
How to do conditional executionEach move is guarded
Exampler1 cmp.o1 // operand move to compare unitr2 cmp.o2 // trigger move to compare unitcmp.r g // put result in boolean register gg:r3 r4 // guarded move takes place when r1=r2
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Register file port pressure for TTAs
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Read and write ports required
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Summary of TTA Advantages
• Better usage of transport capacity– Instead of 3 transports per dyadic operation, about 2 are
needed– # register ports reduced with at least 50%– Inter FU connectivity reduces with 50-70%
• No full connectivity required
• Both the transport capacity and # register ports become independent design parameters; this removes one of the major bottlenecks of VLIWs
• Flexible: Fus can incorporate arbitrary functionality• Scalable: #FUS, #reg.files, etc. can be changed• FU splitting results into extra exploitable concurrency• TTAs are easy to design and can have short cycle times
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Overview• Enhance performance: architecture methods• Instruction Level Parallelism• VLIW• Examples
– C6
– TM
– TTA
• Clustering• Code generation• Hands-on
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Clustered VLIW• Clustering = Splitting up the VLIW data path
- same can be done for the instruction path –
FU FU FU
loop buffer
register file
FU FU FU
loop buffer
register file
FU FU FU
loop buffer
register file
Level 1 Instruction Cache
Level 1 Data Cache
Level 2 (shared) C
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