Design Tools for Reconfigurable High Performance Embedded Computing Architectures

"DARPA is undertaking a revolutionary increase in density of high performance embedded computing architectures in the Polymorphous Computing Architecture (PCA) program. If the revolutionary increase in computing capacity PCA architectures will offer can beefficiently and economically utilized, PCA technology can spur a revolution in new capabilities of systems utilizing embedded computing. Current uni-processor based standard programming practices encounter geometrically increasing difficulty as the degreeof architecture parallelism increases. MCCI proposes extending and adding new tool capability to the Autocoding ToolsetT to enable effective utilization of the promise that PCA technology offers within realistic DoD and commercial project budgets. TheAutocoding ToolsetT will: (1) provide an inherently parallel programming methodology for large scale PCA parallel architectures, (2) provide tool support for design and prototyping highly reconfigurable applications, (3) provide source code crosscompilation to source code for native language compilers o the PCA processors, and (4) run-time support for scheduling, data transfers, and "on-the-fly" control of application configuration and behavior (morphing). MCCI will match the revolutionaryincrease in compute density the PCA program offers with reconfigurable design and programming tools that offer an order of magnitude improvement in application software development productivity."