Title
Exploring Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration in a Tightly-coupled Coprocessor Attached to a RISC-V Soft-processor on a FPGA
Date Issued
05 August 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
Dynamic reconfigurable processors take advantage of the flexibility of general-purpose processors architectures to execute instruction programs, and the flexibility of reconfigurable logic, implementing specialized hardware designs with better performance and energy-efficiency. During runtime, the reconfigurable logic is modified to fit calculations of the application. Prior works propose new reconfigurable architectures that lack of a software ecosystem or architectures based in intellectual property instruction sets. In the present work, partial dynamic reconfiguration is implemented to a tightly coupled coprocessor attached to a RISC-V soft-core that executes Linux. The complete system is tested on the Nexys 4-DDR development board with the AES and DES encryption algorithms. The results show a speedup of up to 249.91 times faster execution and an average reconfiguration time of 151 ms.
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica
Hardware, Arquitectura de computadoras
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85116227931
Resource of which it is part
Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE 28th International Conference on Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computing, INTERCON 2021
ISBN of the container
9781665412216
Conference
28th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computing, INTERCON 2021 Virtual, Lima5 August 2021 through 7 August 2021
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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