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Implementation of an Optimal SIMD-based Many-core Processor for Sound Synthesis of Guitar

기타 음 합성을 위한 최적의 SIMD기반 매니코어 프로세서 구현

  • Choi, Ji-Won (School of Electrical Engineering, University of Ulsan) ;
  • Kang, Myeong-Su (School of Electrical Engineering, University of Ulsan) ;
  • Kim, Jong-Myon (School of Electrical Engineering, University of Ulsan)
  • 최지원 (울산대학교 전기공학부) ;
  • 강명수 (울산대학교 전기공학부) ;
  • 김종면 (울산대학교 전기공학부)
  • Received : 2011.03.14
  • Accepted : 2011.05.11
  • Published : 2012.01.31
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Abstract

Improving operating frequency of processors is no longer today's issues; a multiprocessor technique which integrates many processors has received increasing attention. Currently, high-performance processors that integrate 64 or 128 cores are developing for large data processing over 2, 4, or 8 processor cores. This paper proposes an optimal many-core processor for synthesizing guitar sounds. Unlike the previous research in which a processing element (PE) was assigned to support one of guitar strings, this paper evaluates the impacts of mapping different numbers of PEs to one guitar string in terms of performance and both area and energy efficiencies using architectural and workload simulations. Experimental results show that the maximum area energy efficiencies were achieved at PEs=24 and 96, respectively, for synthesizing guitar sounds with sampling rate of 44.1kHz and 16-bit quantization. The synthesized sounds were very similar to original guitar sounds in their spectra. In addition, the proposed many-core processor was 1,235 and 22 times better than TI TMS320C6416 in area and energy efficiencies, respectively.

프로세서는 더 이상 동작 주파수를 높이는 방법이 아닌 다수의 프로세서를 집적하는 멀티프로세서로 기술 발전이 이루어지고 있다. 최근 2, 4, 8개의 프로세서 코어를 넘어 64, 128개 이상의 프로세서를 집적한 대규모 데이터 처리용 고성능 프로세서들이 개발되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 기타의 음 합성을 위한 최적의 매니코어 프로세서 구조를 제안한다. 기존의 연구에서는 하나의 기타 현에 하나의 프로세싱 엘리먼트(processing element, PE)를 할당하여 음을 합성하였으나, 본 논문은 하나의 기타 현에 여러 개의 PE를 할당하고 각각의 경우에 대해 시스템 성능, 시스템 면적 효율 및 에너지 효율을 평가하였다. 샘플링율이 44.1kHz, 양자화 비트 16인 기타 음을 사용하여 모의 실험한 결과, 시스템 면적 효율은 PE 수가 24개, 에너지 효율은 PE 수가 96개일 때 각각 최적의 효율을 보였다. 또한, 최적의 매니코어 프로세서를 이용하여 합성한 결과 합성음은 원음과 스펙트럼에서 매우 유사하였다. 더불어, 음 합성에 가장 많이 사용되는 TI TMS320C6416보다 시스템 면적에서 1,235배, 에너지 효율에서 22배의 향상을 보였다.

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