Title
A Rapid Data Communication Exploration Tool for Hybrid CPU-FPGA Architectures
Abstract
Modern System-on-Chip (SoC) designs face many challenges. Choosing the best communication protocol among the different processing nodes is one of the most important design decisions. On-chip communication architectures can have a significant impact on the performance of SoC designs. However, in most of the existing design tools, only the computation cost is accurately estimated. To address this challenge, we present a high-level analytical tool to estimate the data communication cost for hybrid CPU-FPGA architectures. The proposed model allows to estimate, rapidly and accurately, both computation and communication cost of applications containing multiple nested loops. This paper also explores the benefits of applying various optimization pragmas including dataflow and loop pipelining, at the compilation phase. Experimental results show that the proposed model provides accurate data communication estimation for hybrid CPUFPGA architectures.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/PDP.2017.11
2017 25th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP)
Keywords
Field
DocType
HLS,FPGA,SoC,Hardware accelerator
Computer architecture,Computer science,Loop pipelining,Parallel computing,Field-programmable gate array,Dataflow,Hardware acceleration,Communications protocol,Nested loop join,Computation
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1066-6192
978-1-5090-6059-7
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
9
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mariem Makni132.08
Smaïl Niar27523.58
Mouna Baklouti33610.24
Guanwen Zhong4393.43
Tulika Mitra52714135.99
Mohamed Abid617129.34