Title
Partial Region and Bitstream Cost Models for Hardware Multitasking on Partially Reconfigurable FPGAs
Date Issued
29 September 2015
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
University of Florida
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
Partial reconfiguration (PR) on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) enables multiple PR modules (PRMs) to time multiplex partially reconfigurable regions (PRRs), which affords reduced reconfiguration time, area overhead, etc., as compared to non-PR systems. However, to effectively leverage PR, system designers must determine appropriate PRR sizes/organizations during early stages of PR system design, since inappropriate PRRs, given PRM requirements, can negate PR benefits, potentially resulting in system performance worse than a functionally-equivalent non-PR design. To aid in PR system design, we present two portable, high-level cost models, which are based on the synthesis report results generated by Xilinx tools. These cost models estimate PRR size/organization given the PRR's associated PRMs to maximize the PRRs' resource utilizations and estimate the PRM's associated partial bitstream sizes based on the PRR sizes/organizations. Experiments evaluate our cost models' accuracies for different PRMs and required resources, which enable our models to afford enhanced designer productivity since these models preclude the lengthy PR design flow, which is typically required to attain such analysis.
Start page
90
End page
96
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Informática y Ciencias de la Información Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84962321387
ISBN
0769555101 9780769555102
Conference
Proceedings - 2015 IEEE 29th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops, IPDPSW 2015
Sponsor(s)
IEEE Computer Society
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