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Design and Synthesis of Image Processing Systems using
Reconfigurable Dataflow Graphs
Mainak Sen and Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and
Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
University of Maryland at College Park
Maryland DSPCAD Research Group http://www.ece.umd.edu/DSPCAD/ho
me/dspcad.htm
November 22, 2005 Leiden University, The Netherlands
Design and Synthesis of Image Processing Systems,
University of Maryland at College Park
Outline
Dataflow-based model of computation for modeling the behavior of DSP applications
Decidable dataflow models
o Example: use of decidable dataflow as a model of computation for modeling the mapping of (decidable) dataflow behaviors onto embedded multiprocessors
Structured reconfiguration of dataflow graphs
Examples of meta-modeling techniques that can be classified as structured, reconfigurable dataflow
o Parameterized dataflow and its application to SDF
o Homogeneous-parameterized dataflow and its application to SDF and CSDF
o Experiments on a gesture recognition application
Summary
Design and Synthesis of Image Processing Systems,
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Dataflow-based design for DSP (Example from Agilent ADS tool)
Design and Synthesis of Image Processing Systems,
University of Maryland at College Park
DSP-oriented Dataflow Models of Computation
Used widely in design tools for DSP
Application is modeled as a directed graph
o Nodes (actors) represent functions
o Edges represent communication channels between functions
o Nodes produce and consume data from edges
o Edges buffer data in FIFO (first-in first-out) fashion
Data-driven execution model o A node can execute whenever
it has sufficient data on its input edges
o The order in which nodes execute is not part of the specification
o The order is typically determined by the compiler, the hardware, or both
Iterative execution
o Body of loop to be iterated a large or infinite number of times
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Dataflow Features and Advantages
Exposes coarse-grain parallelism.
Exposes high-level structure that facilitates analysis, verification, and optimization.
Captures multi-rate behavior.
Complementary to ongoing advances in DSP compiler technology for procedural languages, such as C and MATLAB.
Encourages desirable software engineering practices: modularity and code reuse
o Amenable also to aspect-oriented design.
Intuitive to DSP algorithm designers: signal flow graphs.
Design and Synthesis of Image Processing Systems,
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Evolution of Dataflow Models for DSP
Synchronous dataflow: static multirate behavior
o Agilent ADS, Cadence SPW, etc.
Well-behaved dataflow: schemas for bounded dynamics
Boolean/integer dataflow: Turing complete models
Multidimensional synchronous dataflow: image and video
Scalable synchronous dataflow: block processing
o Synopsys COSSAP
Cyclo-static dataflow: phased behavior
o Synopsys El Greco, Eonic Systems Virtuoso Synchro, System Canvas
Bounded dynamic dataflow : bounded dynamics
The processing graph method: reconfigurable dynamic DF
o US Naval Research Laboratory, MCCI Autocoding Toolset
Parameterized dataflow: dynamically-reconfigurable static DF
Blocked dataflow: image and video in terms of reconfigurable dataflow
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Modeling Design Space
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Verification / synthesis power
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C, BDF, DDF
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SDF
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CSDF
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CSDF, SSDF
MDSDF, WBDF
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PSDF
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PCSDF
(Third dimension: simplicity and intuitive appeal)
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Decidable Dataflow Models
Modeling flow for representing static flowgraph behavior:
o Cyclo-static dataflow (CSDF), multiphase modeling
o Synchronous dataflow (SDF), multirate modeling
o Homogeneous synchronous dataflow (HSDF)
o Acyclic homogeneous synchronous dataflow (“task graphs”)
These are in decreasing order or generality
Designs represented in the more general models can be converted to equivalent representations in the less general ones
o e.g., CSDF SDF HSDF task graph
HSDF: each actor (graph node) produces/consumes exactly one data value to/from each incident output/input edge
o Suitable for exposing parallelism
o Not the best model for minimizing memory requirements
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Synthesis Techniques for Decidable Models
Static scheduling: low overhead, predictability
Performance analysis through synchronization graphs
Loop scheduling
o Implicit repetition in the dataflow graph (through changes in sample rate) needs to be translated into explicit repetition in the form of loops on the execution target.
o Complex design space exists for such translation
o Complementary to procedural language techniques for nested loop compilation
Loop scheduling techniques
o Simulation speedup (minimization of scheduling complexity)
o Code/data minimization
o Hierarchical parallel scheduling
o Block processing
Task scheduling for latency/throughput optimization
Probabilistic design: exploiting tolerances to deadline misses
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Example: Intermediate representations for synthesis from decidable dataflow models
Consider a decidable dataflow behavior that is to be implemented on a self-timed, embedded multiprocessor
o Natural way to implement DSP multiprocessors from decidable dataflow
o Actor assignment and ordering are performed statically
o Invocation (dispatch) of actors is performed dynamically, through synchronization
Candidate mappings of the behavior onto the architecture can be represented through an intermediate representation that also has decidable dataflow semantics
o This representation is useful for understanding the performance, communication overhead, and synchronization structure associated with the candidate mapping
Facilitates the separation of communication and synchronization functionality
This is a useful modeling methodology for design space exploration
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Interprocessor Communication Graph (Gipc)
2r1
4s1
4s2
4s3
5s1
7r1
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IPC Graph
Every edge (vi, vj) induces the precedence constraint
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Self-Timed Schedule
Proc 1: (1, 2, 3, 4, 6)
Proc 2: (5, 7, 8)
Proc 3: (9)
Proc 1
Proc 2
Proc 3
Self-timed schedule and its IPC graph
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The synchronization graph Gs
Derived from the interprocessor communication graph
Synchronization edges are distinguished from interprocessor communication (IPC) edges
o Synchronization edges represent precedence constraints that are enforced by synchronization protocols
o IPC edges represent data transfers
Interprocessor connections
o Coincident synchronization and IPC edges communication together with synchronization protocol (conventional approach)
o IPC edge only communication without synch. protocol
o Synchronization edge only synchronization protocol only
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Applications of Synchronization Graphs
Simulation Throughput estimation through
cycle mean analysis
Removal of redundant synchronizations
Resynchronization
Conversion to more efficient synchronization protocols (strongly connected synchronization graphs)
Statically determining and minimizing the sizes of
interprocessor communication buffers
All are post-processing methods that can be applied to improve a wide range of existing task graph scheduling techniques on a wide range of multiprocessor architectures.
These techniques benefit from good execution time estimates, but do not depend on exact execution time values to deliver useful results.
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Beyond Decidable Models
Limited expressive power: DSP applications increasingly employ high-level dynamics in their behavior
o User interface functionality
o Mode changes
o Adaptive algorithms
o Reconfiguration of processing resources/parameters
However, key subsystems still exhibit large amounts of “quasi-static” structure --- structure that stays fixed across significant windows of time.
Various dynamic dataflow models have been proposed that address the limitation above by abandoning most or all restrictions related to decidable dataflow
However, these methods are correspondingly limited in their ability to exploit the quasi-static structure described above
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Parameterized Dataflow: Structured Control of Dynamic Parameters
The Key discipline that is imposed on reconfiguration is that each subsystem must have a consistent view of each of its actors (hierarchical or primitive) throughout any given iteration of that subsystem.
Design and Synthesis of Image Processing Systems,
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Parameterized Dataflow
Hierarchical modeling
subsystem
parent graph
subinit
init
body
parameter n, ...
writes n
reads n
Parameterized DF subsystem is composed of 3 parmeterized DF graphs:
o init, subinit, body
Subsystem parameters
o configured in init/subinit, used in body
Dynamically reconfigurable
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Meta-modeling with parameterized dataflow
Parameterized dataflow can be applied to any dataflow model of computation (“base model”) to augment that model with dynamic reconfiguration capabilities in a structured way
o Provides for efficient quasi-static scheduling
o Enables execution to be viewed in terms of a sequence of dataflow graphs in the base model
Parameterized dataflow + XYZ “Parameterized XYZ”
Examples of parameterized dataflow models of computation that we are developing and experimenting with
o parameterized synchronous dataflow (PSDF)
o parameterized cyclo-static dataflow (PCSDF)
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Parameterized Synchronous Dataflow (PSDF)
“Locally synchrony” conditions can be formulated and checked in a quasi-static fashion to ensure that bounded token production and consumption along with bounded delays lead to bounded memory requirements overall.
o This is not true of unstructured dynamic dataflow models, such as general dynamic
dataflow, boolean dataflow, and bounded dynamic dataflow
Techniques for construction of streamlined looped schedules for synchronous dataflow graphs have natural and efficient extensions to the construction of parameterized looped schedules for PSDF graphs.
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PSDF Example: CD to DAT Conversion
initChild
setFac
(sets i1,…d4)
CD
PF1
1 1 d1 i4 i1 i3 d2 d4 i2 d3
PF2
preamble
PF3
PF4
DAT
params i1, d1, …., i4, d4
init
body
body
repeat 5 times { fire setFac /* sets i1, d1, i2, d2, i3, d3, i4, d4 */ int _g1 = gcd(i1, d2); int _g2=gcd((i2 x i1)/_g1, d3) int _g3=gcd((i3 x i2 x i1)/(_g2 x _g1), d4); repeat (d4/_g3) times { repeat (d3/_g2) times { repeat (d2/_g1) times { repeat (d1) times {fire CD} fire PF1 } repeat (i1/_g1) times {fire PF2} } repeat ((i2 x i1)/(_g2 x _g1)) times {fire PF3} } repeat ((i3 x i2 x i1)/(_g3 x _g2 x _g1)) times { fire PF4 } repeat (i4) times {fire DAT} }
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PSDF Example: Speech Compression
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PCSDF Version of Speech Compression
Design and Synthesis of Image Processing Systems,
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Outline
Dataflow-based model of computation for modeling the behavior of DSP applications
Decidable dataflow models
o Example: use of decidable dataflow as a model of computation for modeling the mapping of (decidable) dataflow behaviors onto embedded multiprocessors
Structured reconfiguration of dataflow graphs
Examples of meta-modeling techniques that can be classified as structured, reconfigurable dataflow
o Parameterized dataflow and its application to SDF
o Homogeneous-parameterized dataflow and its application to SDF and CSDF
o Experiments on a gesture recognition application
Summary
Design and Synthesis of Image Processing Systems,
University of Maryland at College Park
Homogeneous Parameterized Dataflow
(HPDF)
Parameterized dataflow model that can encapsulate dynamicity of application.
Meta-modeling technique. Hierarchical actors can have any other underlying dataflow model (SDF, CSDF, PSDF etc.)
Data production & consumption rates though dynamic are equal across an edge for a large number of applications - thus the name homogeneous.
Reconfiguration can be performed without introducing hierarchy when more natural to do so (advantage over parameterized dataflow).
Parameterized dataflow is a more powerful technique and thus can be used to represent a wider set of applications.
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Applications
Applications with dynamic run-time data and aggregated final-stage processes perform especially well for HPDF over SDF semantics.
Many applications in image and speech processing seem well suited for our model.
We applied the model on two applications –
- A real-time video processing algorithm for smart camera developed at Princeton
- A face detection algorithm developed at CFAR labs in UMD.
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Application characteristics
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N
Dynamic but balanced amount of data
Aggregating
final-stage
This structure seems to be abundant in many audio/video applications.
Our HPDF model is a natural fit for applications with the above structure.
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Gesture recognition algorithm
Real-time video processing for gesture recognition.
Does low-level (red oval) and high-level processing.
Low-level processing recognizes body parts and identifies movements.
High-level processing recognized actions.
We concentrate on low-level processing.
Ref : W. Wolf, B. Ozer, T. LV. Smart cameras as embedded systems. IEEE Computer Magazine Vol 35, Iss 9, Sept 2002, Pages 48-53
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HPDF model of
gesture recognition algorithm
Region
finding
Contour
following
Ellipse
Fitting
Graph
Matching
Dynamic data
Aggregating
final-stage
Dynamic data
n n
p p
Ptolemy II implementation
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Modeling with HPDF/CSDF
VIDEO
INPUT
REGION
EXTRACTION
CONTOUR
FOLLOWING
(s 1) (s 1)
(s 1) (s 1)
(s 1) (s 1)
(s 1) (Xi, Yi)
(s 1) (Xi, Yi)
ELLIPSE
FITTING
(I 0,I ki) (n 1)
MATCH
p (pi1, qi 0)
p phases with 1 token and (n-p) phases with 0 token production
#phases = #pixels = s
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Integrating HPDF and CSDF
Number of phases in a fundamental period can vary dynamically.
Number of tokens produced or consumed in a given phase can also vary dynamically.
HPDF constraint: the total number of tokens produced by a source actor of a given edge in a given invocation (a fundamental period) must equal the total number of tokens consumed by the sink in its corresponding invocation.
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Each frame has 384x240 pixels, so we model the input as a CSDF actor with 92160 = s phases.
Model captures pixel level parallelism present in Region.
It also captures the frame level parallelism through the number of phases in Input (s).
Finer granularity and Input modeling
VIDEO
INPUT
REGION
EXTRACTION
(s 1) (s 1)
(s 1) (s 1)
(s 1) (s 1)
#phases = #pixels = s
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Modeling dynamicity - Contour
2 phases for Contour
First one scans until finds a contour.
o Output = 0 tokens
Second one follows this contour and all the overlapping ones.
o Output = ki tokens, each token is a list of pixels from a contour
Homogeneous condition remains:
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Scheduling
VRCEM
(s V)(s R)(2I C)(n E)M
(s VR)(2I C)(n E)M
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We applied HPDF to successfully model a face detection algorithm also.
We developed a TI DSP implementation of the HPDF model of the gesture recognition algorithm.
The application was run on a TMS320C64xx fixed point processor.
When implemented with our HPDF model, the runtime was 21405671 cycles.
With a 40ns cycle period, execution time for the application was 0.86 sec.
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Results (contd.)
Scheduling overhead was minimal as imperatively highly streamlined quasi-static schedule was obtained.
Worst case buffer size 642 Kb when the input images were 384X240 pixels. HPDF modeling suggested buffer reuse between the edges.
Original C code had runtime of 27741882 cycles, execution time was 1.11 sec with the same clock period of 40 ns.
HPDF improved runtime by 23%.
Efficient hardware code generation is being looked into using hardware synthesis framework developed in our research group.
Design and Synthesis of Image Processing Systems,
University of Maryland at College Park
Summary
Dataflow-based model of computation for is attractive for
modeling the behavior of DSP applications
Decidable dataflow models are useful for exposing and exploiting static structure in synthesis tools for DSP
Decidable dataflow models in conjunction with structured reconfigurable techniques allow for efficient handling of application dynamics
Examples of structured, reconfigurable dataflow techniques that we discussed:
o Parameterized dataflow and its application to SDF
o Homogeneous-parameterized dataflow and its application to SDF and CSDF
o Experiments on a gesture recognition application
Other examples include dynamic configuration of graph topologies, and blocked dataflow modeling.
Design and Synthesis of Image Processing Systems,
University of Maryland at College Park
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