Paper Info
Title
A message-passing hardware/software cosimulation environment for reconfigurable computing systems
Abstract
High-performance reconfigurable computers (HPRCs) provide a mix of standard processors and FPGAs to collectively accelerate applications. This introduces new design challenges, such as the need for portable programming models across HPRCs and system-level verification tools. To address the need for cosimulating a complete heterogeneous application using both software and hardware in an HPRC, we have created a tool called the Message-passing Simulation Framework (MSF). We have used it to simulate and develop an interface enabling an MPI-based approach to exchange data between X86 processors and hardware engines inside FPGAs. The MSF can also be used as an application development tool that enables multiple FPGAs in simulation to exchange messages amongst themselves and with X86 processors. As an example, we simulate a LINPACK benchmark hardware core using an Intel-FSB-Xilinx-FPGA platform to quickly prototype the hardware, to test the communications and to verify the benchmark results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1155/2009/376232
Int. J. Reconfig. Comp.
Keywords
Field
DocType
benchmark result,intel-fsb-xilinx-fpga platform,high-performance reconfigurable computer,hardware engine,linpack benchmark hardware core,reconfigurable computing system,message-passing hardware,system-level verification tool,complete heterogeneous application,software cosimulation environment,multiple fpgas,x86 processor,application development tool,message passing,reconfigurable computing
x86,Computer architecture,Programming paradigm,Computer science,Parallel computing,Field-programmable gate array,Real-time computing,Software,Hardware software,Message passing,Reconfigurable computing,Embedded system
Journal
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
2009,
0
0.34
References 
Authors
6
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Manuel Saldaña1625.96
Emanuel Ramalho240.91
Paul Chow3868119.97