Name
Abstract | ||
|---|---|---|
The growing capacity of integration allows to instantiate hundreds of soft-core processors in a single FPGA to create a reconfigurable multiprocessing system. Lately, FPGAs have been proven to give a higher energy efficiency than alternative platforms like CPUs and GPGPUs for certain workloads and are increasingly used in data-centers. In this paper we investigate whether many-soft-core processors can achieve similar levels of energy efficiency while providing a general purpose environment, more easily programmed, and allowing to run other applications without reconfiguring the device. With a simple application example we are able to create a reconfigurable multiprocessing system achieving an energy efficiency 58 times higher than a recent ultra-low-power processor and 124 times higher than a recent high performance GPGPU. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2016 | 10.13140/RG.2.1.1276.5042 | arXiv: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing |
Field | DocType | Volume |
Computer architecture,General purpose,Efficient energy use,Computer science,Field-programmable gate array,Multiprocessing,Real-time computing,Soft core,General-purpose computing on graphics processing units | Journal | abs/1601.07133 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 0 |
Authors | ||
3 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| David Castells-Rufas | 1 | 45 | 7.70 |
| Albert Saà-Garriga | 2 | 2 | 1.42 |
| Jordi Carrabina | 3 | 139 | 36.98 |