ILP-based Memory-Aware Mapping Optimization for MPSoCs

The mapping of applications onto multiprocessor system-on-chip (MPSoC) devices is an important and complex optimization task. The goal is to efficiently distribute application tasks to available processors while optimizing for energy or runtime. Unfortunately, the influence of memories or memory hierarchies is not considered in existing mapping optimizations so far, even though it is a well-known fact that memories have a drastic impact on runtime and energy consumption of the system. In this paper, we address the challenge of finding an efficient application to MPSoC mapping while explicitly considering the underlying memory subsystem and an efficient mapping of task's memory objects to memories. For this purpose, we developed a memory-aware mapping tool based on ILP optimization. Evaluations on various benchmarks show that our memory-aware mapping tool outperforms state-of-the-art mapping optimizations by reducing the runtime up to 18%, and energy consumption up to 21%.