Name
Abstract | ||
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This paper presents the FPGA implementation of the prototype for the Data-Driven Chip-Multiprocessor (D-2-CMP). In particular, we study the implementation of a Thread Synchronization Unit (TSU) on FPGA, a hardware unit that enables thread execution using dataflow-like scheduling policy on a chip multiprocessor. Threads are scheduled for execution based on data availability, i.e., a thread is scheduled for execution only if its input data is available. This model of execution is called the non-blocking Data-Driven Multithreading (DDM) model of execution. The DDM model has been evaluated using an execution driven simulator. To validate the simulation results, a 2-node DDM chip multiprocessor has been implemented on a Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGA with two PowerPC processors hardwired on the FPGA. Measurements on the hardware prototype show that the TSU can be implemented with a moderate hardware budget. The 2-node multiprocessor has been implemented with less than half of the reconfigurable hardware available on the Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGA (45% slices), which corresponds to an ASIC equivalent gate count of 1.9 million gates. Measurements on the prototype showed that the delays incurred by the operation of the TSU can be tolerated. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2008 | 10.1142/S0129626408003399 | PARALLEL PROCESSING LETTERS |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Data-Driven Multithreading, FPGA, Multicore | Multithreading,Computer science,Parallel computing,FPGA prototype,Field-programmable gate array,Thread (computing),Synchronization (computer science),PowerPC,Multi-core processor,Operating system,Reconfigurable computing | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
18 | 2 | 0129-6264 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 14 |
Authors | ||
5 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Konstantinos Tatas | 1 | 98 | 16.40 |
| Costas Kyriacou | 2 | 65 | 6.57 |
| Paraskevas Evripidou | 3 | 313 | 34.69 |
| Pedro Trancoso | 4 | 377 | 43.79 |
| Stephan Wong | 5 | 0 | 0.34 |