An automated algorithm to generate stream programs

Abstract

With the proliferation of reconfigurable systems and flexible memory architectures, there has been intense interest in stream systems. While the existing stream systems require the programs to be written using special models, this paper demonstrates an approach to automatically generate stream programs from existing applications written for non-stream scalar processors. As a part of this approach, we provide a new comparison methodology and an algorithm to automatically generate stream descriptions. A second algorithm identifies processing kernels that can be pipelined. We demonstrate our results on an FPGA based platform.