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Nikolaos Kyrtatas, Daniele G. Spampinato and Markus Püschel (Proc. Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), pp. 1054-1059, 2015)
A Basic Linear Algebra Compiler for Embedded Processors
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Many applications in signal processing, control, and graphics on embedded devices require efficient linear algebra computations. On general-purpose computers, program generators have proven useful to produce such code, or important building blocks, automatically. An example is LGen, a compiler for basic linear algebra computations of fixed size. In this work, we extend LGen towards the embedded domain using as example targets Intel Atom, ARM Cortex-A8, ARM Cortex-A9, and Raspberry Pi (ARM1176). To efficiently support these processors we introduce support for the NEON vector ISA and a methodology for domain-specific load/store optimizations. Our experimental evaluation shows that the new version of LGen produces code that performs better than well-established, commercial and non-commercial libraries (Intel MKL and IPP), software generators (Eigen and ATLAS), and compilers (icc, gcc, and clang).

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