PR-HMPSoC: A versatile partially reconfigurable heterogeneous Multiprocessor System-on-Chip for dynamic FPGA-based embedded systems

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Beitragende

  • Tuan D.A. Nguyen - , National University of Singapore (Autor:in)
  • Akash Kumar - , National University of Singapore (Autor:in)

Abstract

FPGA-based heterogeneous Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chip (HMPSoCs) are becoming quite popular for high performance embedded systems because of their powerful computational ability and relatively flexible architecture to adapt to unexpected system requirement changes. However, with the insatiable demands of supporting an extensive range of applications beyond the limited resources of FPGA chip and shorter time-to-market, many research works on partially reconfigurable (PR) FPGA architectures have been conducted to fulfill the needs. Those have yet to fully provide a versatile framework to exploit the flexibility of PR such as hardware/software task migration and bitstream relocation; more importantly, the on-chip debug features to access all processors currently loaded in the system are compromised because of the lack of native-support from vendor tools. In this paper, a novel PR-HMPSoC architecture for dynamic FPGA-based embedded system is proposed to provide solutions for all of the above issues. The results from the experimental system consisting of one static Microblaze and three PR Microblaze/hardware accelerators connected by a Network-on-Chip show that the architecture is very promising with just 8% reduction in operating frequency.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
TitelConference Digest - 24th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, FPL 2014
Herausgeber (Verlag)IEEE Xplore
Seitenumfang6
ISBN (elektronisch)9783000446450
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 16 Okt. 2014
Peer-Review-StatusJa
Extern publiziertJa

Publikationsreihe

ReiheInternational Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)
ISSN1946-147X

Konferenz

Titel2014 24th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications
KurztitelFPL 2014
Veranstaltungsnummer24
Dauer1 - 5 September 2014
OrtTechnische Universität München
StadtMünchen
LandDeutschland

Schlagworte

Schlagwörter

  • bitstream relocation, debug, FPGA, heterogeneous, multiprocessor, partial reconfiguration, task migration

Bibliotheksschlagworte