Tutorials

Tutorial Introduction

The following topics are covered in this tutorial:

• Installation of PREESM, Graphiti graph editor and DFTools plugins for Eclipse
• Presentation of PREESM layout (Workflow, Scenario, Architecture graph, Algorithm graph…)
• Simulation and scheduling of a multicore code
• Generation of a multicore code

Prerequisites: None

Parallelize an Application on a Multicore CPU

The following topics are covered in this tutorial:

• Implementation of a Sobel filter with Preesm
• C Code generation
• Parallelization for multi-threaded environment

Prerequisites:

• Tutorial Introduction

Program the 8 cores of your Texas Instruments C6678 EVM

The following topics are covered in this tutorial:

• C Code and Instrumented C code generation
• Generation of cache coherent code
• Execution on a Multicore C6x DSP (EVM6678)
• Performance optimization of the application

Prerequisite:

• Tutorial Introduction
• Parallelize an Application on a Multicore CPU

Software Pipelining for Throughput Optimization

The following topics are covered in this tutorial:

• Software Pipelining of an Application for Throughput Optimization

Prerequisite:

• Tutorial Introduction
• Parallelize an Application on a Multicore CPU

Memory Footprint Reduction

The following topics are covered in this tutorial:

• Overview of the memory allocation mechanism of Preesm
• Selection of an allocation algorithm
• Derive bounds for the memory allocation
• Post-scheduling optimization of the memory allocation

Prerequisite:

• Tutorial Introduction
• Parallelize an Application on a Multicore CPU

Advanced Memory Footprint Reduction

The following topics are covered in this tutorial:

• Memory scripts to customize the memory allocation of actor ports
• Dataflow ports annotation
• Performance optimization by removing useless memory operations

Prerequisite:

• Memory Footprint Reduction

Automated Measurement of Actor Execution Time

The following topics are covered in this tutorial:

• Instrumented C code generation
• Analysis of measured execution time
• Scenario timings update for increased performance

Prerequisite:

• Tutorial Introduction
• Parallelize an Application on a Multicore CPU

Import or Export a SDF3 Graph

The following topics are covered in this tutorial:

• Creation of a new Workflow
• Importation of SDF3 SDF Graphs

Prerequisite:

• Tutorial Introduction