Paper Info
Title
A CAD Open Platform for High Performance Reconfigurable Systems in the EXTRA Project
Abstract
As the power wall has become one of the main limiting factors for the performance of general purpose processors, the trend in High Performance Computing (HPC) is moving towards application-specific accelerators in order to meet the stringent performance requirements for exascale computing while still satisfying power budget constraints. Within this context, reconfigurable devices, and more specifically FPGA-based systems, represent a promising solution able to achieve highly energy efficient computations without jeopardizing performance. Nevertheless, the exploitation of reconfigurable hardware is still limited due to the hardware-software co-design challenges that it poses, the time consuming design space exploration process and the programming complexity. To overcome these challenges, the EXTRA European project addresses the reconfigurability of such devices as a first-class feature, covering the entire stack from the system architecture up to the application. Within this paper, we present the effort of the EXTRA project towards the definition of an adaptive open platform for the optimization and implementation of applications on high performance reconfigurable architectures. The underlying infrastructure of the platform is here presented, highlighting its capability to integrate modules from different developers in order to stimulate external contributions and open research.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/ISVLSI.2017.71
2017 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI)
Keywords
Field
DocType
FPGA,Computer Aided Design,Design Space Exploration,Reconfigurable Architectures,Open Research Platform
Power budget,Exascale computing,Reconfigurability,Open platform,Supercomputer,Systems architecture,Engineering,Design space exploration,Reconfigurable computing,Embedded system
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5090-6763-3
2
0.39
References 
Authors
12
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marco Rabozzi1417.58
Rolando Brondolin253.55
Giuseppe Natale331.44
Emanuele Del Sozzo4409.12
Michael Hübner524944.10
Andreas Brokalakis6286.91
Catalin Bogdan Ciobanu7307.26
dirk stroobandt8833101.36
Marco D. Santambrogio977191.15