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Extensible Recognition of Algorithmic Patterns in DSP Programs for Automatic Parallelization

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We introduce an extensible knowledge based tool for idiom (pattern) recognition in DSP (digital signal processing) programs. Our tool utilizes functionality provided by the Cetus compiler infrastructure for detecting certain computation patterns that frequently occur in DSP code. We focus on recognizing patterns for for-loops and statements in their bodies as these often are the performance critical constructs in DSP applications for which replacement by highly optimized, target-specific parallel algorithms will be most profitable. For better structuring and efficiency of pattern recognition, we classify patterns by different levels of complexity such that patterns in higher levels are defined in terms of lower level patterns. The tool works statically on the intermediate representation. For better extensibility and abstraction, most of the structural part of recognition rules is specified in XML form to separate the tool implementation from the pattern specifications. Information about detected patterns will later be used for optimized code generation by local algorithm replacement e.g. for the low-power high-throughput multicore DSP architecture ePUMA.

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  1. Certain transformational techniques such as loop distribution are applied in order to enhance the recognition process in the presence of multiple statements in a for-loop body that together do not match any defined single pattern. Loop distribution factors out statements of the loop body with no cyclic data dependency into separate loops, which enhances the recognition process. The details of the whole process can be found in [24].

  2. Although arrays are considered as variables in most of the programming languages, Cetus handles them in a different manner by defining a specific type (ArrayAccess) for them.

  3. The ADDMULTIMUL pattern supports an arbitrary number of factors.

  4. The non-structural part of recognition rules will be handled by separate auxiliary matching functions called by reflection, which will be explained in Sect. 4.4.

  5. Generally, such merging of siblings is only possible if interferences by other read or write accesses by other siblings “in between” can be statically excluded; see [13] for details.

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This project was supported by SSF and SeRC. We would also like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments.

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    Amin Shafiee Sarvestani, Erik Hansson & Christoph Kessler

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Shafiee Sarvestani, A., Hansson, E. & Kessler, C. Extensible Recognition of Algorithmic Patterns in DSP Programs for Automatic Parallelization. Int J Parallel Prog 41, 806–824 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10766-012-0229-2

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