Analysis of the reconfiguration latency and energy overheads for a Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA

In this paper we have evaluated the overhead and the tradeoffs of a set of components usually included in a system with run-time partial reconfiguration implemented on a Xilinx Virtex-5. Our analysis shows the benefits of including a scratchpad memory inside the reconfiguration controller in order t...

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Autores: Olivito, Javier, Serrano, Felipe, Clemente Barreira, Juan Antonio, Mecha, Hortensia, Resano, Javier
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/11976
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/11976
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Circuitos integrados
Hardware
Electrónica (Informática)
2203.07 Circuitos Integrados
2203 Electrónica
Descrição
Resumo:In this paper we have evaluated the overhead and the tradeoffs of a set of components usually included in a system with run-time partial reconfiguration implemented on a Xilinx Virtex-5. Our analysis shows the benefits of including a scratchpad memory inside the reconfiguration controller in order to improve the efficiency of the reconfiguration process. We have designed a simple controller for this scratchpad that includes support for prefetching and caching in order to further reduce both the energy and latency overhead.