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diff --git a/content/zettel/1e1.md b/content/zettel/1e1.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..eba95c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/zettel/1e1.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ ++++ +title = "How to run C on spatial hardware" +author = "Yann Herklotz" +tags = [] +categories = [] +backlinks = ["1e"] +forwardlinks = [] +zettelid = "1e1" ++++ + +- Key is that hardware has unlimited parallelism +- Want to take away the unnecessary ordering that is imposed in + software +- Loads ask for memory and can then block to retrieve the memory +- For if-statements, the branch is removed and is instead replaced by + a multiplexer +- Any stores in the if-statement need to be anded with the condition + of that branch +- If the execution time is very different in two branches, they should + be separated into different control flow statements, so that the + delay is only experienced when that branch is actually taken. |