Baofen Yuan

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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2022
0000-0002-8387-8657ORCID · reported

Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several

Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper
Reconfigurable computing and FPGAs · 100%
Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
1 paper
Compilers and program optimization · 100%

Topics — the 2 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Compilers and program optimization › instruction scheduling
software pipelining
0.612022
Dynamic-II Pipeline: Compiling Loops With Irregular Branches on Static-Scheduling CGRA · IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst. 2022
Reconfigurable computing and FPGAs
coarse-grained reconfigurable architecture
0.612022
Dynamic-II Pipeline: Compiling Loops With Irregular Branches on Static-Scheduling CGRA · IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst. 2022

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

predication · 1.1partial predication · 1.1full predication · 1.1
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2022 Dynamic-II Pipeline: Compiling Loops With Irregular Branches on Static-Scheduling CGRA
abstract
Coarse-grained reconfigurable architecture (CGRA) is a promising programmable hardware with high power-efficiency and high performance. However, compiling and optimizing loops with irregular branches on CGRAs is a challenge to fulfill the performance potential. Existing predication techniques, such as partial predication (PP) and full predication (FP), conservatively implement software pipeline with a static initiation interval (II) obtained from the maximum graph, and thus only parts of the graph in each loop iteration will be actually executed, resulting in underexploited performance. To exploit more loop-level parallelism for irregular branches, this article proposes a novel dynamic-II pipeline (DIP) scheme, which realizes a pipeline with variable II by accommodating multiple iterations of short path in one static configuration. Since the DIP scheme is effective to only certain types of branches, this article designs a hybrid compilation framework integrating other complementary methods, which selects the appropriate method for source programs according to a proposed performance evaluation model. Experimental results show that: 1) the hybrid compilation framework can effectively extract branch features, correctly choose and implement corresponding branch processing methods within acceptable compile time and 2) as compared to PP and FP, DIP brings a significant total execution time (TET) reduction by 27.21% and 22.04% on average when the execution probability of a short branch is 50%.
Baofen Yuan, Jianfeng Zhu 0001, Xingchen Man, Zijiao Ma, Shouyi Yin, Shaojun Wei, Leibo Liu
IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst.1