URI | http://purl.tuc.gr/dl/dias/9454AB75-6C04-420E-8A5D-0F3220F19080 | - |
Αναγνωριστικό | http://users.isc.tuc.gr/~kpapadimitriou/publications/DetermReconfig-fccm2007.pdf | - |
Γλώσσα | en | - |
Μέγεθος | 2 pages | en |
Τίτλος | Methodology and experimental setup for the determination of system-level dynamic reconfiguration overhead | en |
Δημιουργός | Papadimitriou Kyprianos | en |
Δημιουργός | Παπαδημητριου Κυπριανος | el |
Δημιουργός | Anyfantis Antonis | en |
Δημιουργός | Dollas Apostolos | en |
Δημιουργός | Δολλας Αποστολος | el |
Εκδότης | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | en |
Περίληψη | Dynamic reconfiguration is gaining popularity [2], [4]
but it may cause degradation of overall execution time due
to the time to download the bitstream before an application
starts execution of the new configuration. Thus evaluation
of its performance becomes an interesting area [3]. In this
work we include an analysis of the reconfiguration time by
defining the delays that add up to it. An experimental setup
is deployed that can be used for performance evaluation of
applications implemented with dynamic reconfiguration, as
well as of mechanisms developed to reduce reconfiguration
overhead.
The configuration memory of Xilinx Virtex-II is arranged
in vertical frames. In a self-reconfigurable system
[1] where the PowerPC reconfigures the FPGA through the
Internal Configuration Access Port (ICAP), once data are
available in the configuration cache HWICAP BRAM the
nominal time to reconfigure a single frame is 12.5 µs for 66
MHz. However, this is not the only aspect in the reconfiguration
process. Several physical components of the system
add significant delays causing reconfiguration time to increase
more than three orders of magnitude as compared to
the above time. | en |
Τύπος | Πλήρης Δημοσίευση σε Συνέδριο | el |
Τύπος | Conference Full Paper | en |
Άδεια Χρήσης | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en |
Ημερομηνία | 2015-11-12 | - |
Ημερομηνία Δημοσίευσης | 2007 | - |
Θεματική Κατηγορία | Computer software engineering | en |
Θεματική Κατηγορία | software engineering | en |
Θεματική Κατηγορία | computer software engineering | en |
Βιβλιογραφική Αναφορά | K. Papadimitriou, A. Anyfantis and A. Dollas, "Methodology and experimental setup for the determination of system-level dynamic reconfiguration overhead," in IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, 2007, pp. 335-336. | en |