Coarse Grained Reconfigurable Architecture (CGRA) achieves high performance by exploiting instructionlevel parallelism with software pipeline. Large instruction memory is, however, a critical problem of CGRA, which requires large silicon area and power consumption. Code compression is a promising technique to reduce the memory area, bandwidth requirements, and power consumption. We present an adaptive code compression scheme for CGRA instructions based on dictionary-based compression, where compression mode and dictionary contents are adaptively selected for each execution kernel and compression group. In addition, it is able to design hardware decompressor efficiently with two-cycle latency and negligible silicon overhead. The proposed method achieved an average compression ratio 0.52 in a CGRA of 16-functional unit array with the experiments of well-optimized applications.
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