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Heterogeneous multi-core processor is proposed to accelerate applications using an application-specific hardware, such as graphics processing unit (GPU). However, heterogeneous multi-core processor is difficult to program. Therefore, OpenCL (Open Computing Language) standard recently has been proposed to reduce the difficulty. A program of OpenCL mainly consists of the host code (executed on CPU) and the device code (executed on GPU or other accelerators). LLVM (Low Level Virtual Machine) is a compiler infrastructure and supports a variety of front-ends into LLVM IR (Intermediate Representation). To help translate programs written by different programming languages of LLVM front-ends to OpenCL, this work defines some extensions of LLVM IR to represent the kernel function of OpenCL. Furthermore, a translation framework is designed and implemented to translate annotated LLVM IR to OpenCL kernel function.
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Chang, CT., Chen, YS., Wu, IW., Shann, JJ. (2013). A Translation Framework for Automatic Translation of Annotated LLVM IR into OpenCL Kernel Function. In: Pan, JS., Yang, CN., Lin, CC. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Systems and Applications - Volume 2. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35473-1_62
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