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A Hardware Co-design Workflow for Scientific Instruments at the Edge (2111.01380v1)

Published 2 Nov 2021 in physics.ins-det

Abstract: As spatial and temporal resolutions of scientific instruments improve, the explosion in the volume of data produced is becoming a key challenge. It can be a critical bottleneck for integration between scientific instruments at the edge and high-performance computers/emerging accelerators. Placing data compression or reduction logic close to the data source is a possible approach to solve the bottleneck. However, the realization of such a solution requires the development of custom ASIC designs, which is still challenging in practice and tends to produce one-off implementations unusable beyond the initial intended scope. Therefore, as a feasibility study, we have been investigating a design workflow that allows us to explore algorithmically complex hardware designs and develop reusable hardware libraries for the needs of scientific instruments at the edge. Our vision is to cultivate our hardware development capability for streaming/dataflow hardware components that can be placed close to the data source to enable extreme data-intensive scientific experiments or environmental sensing. Furthermore, reducing data movement is essential to improving computing performance in general. Therefore, our co-design efforts on streaming hardware components can benefit computing applications other than scientific instruments. This vision paper discusses hardware specialization needs in scientific instruments and briefly reviews our progress leveraging the Chisel hardware description language and emerging open-source hardware ecosystems, including a few design examples.

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