K-loops - Loop Transformations - Ozana Silvia Dragomir

The focus of this dissertation is on kernel loops (K-loops), which are loop nests that contain hardware mapped kernels in the loop body. The reader will find here methods for improving the performance of such K-loops, by using standard loop transformations such as unrolling and pipelining, for exposing and exploiting the coarse grain loop level parallelism.The targeted applications are from the signal processing domain, where large kernels in the innermost loop are common. Examples are the JPEG,..