The many-core design paradigm requires flexible and modular hardware and software components to provide the required scalability of next-generation on-chip multiprocessor architectures. A multidisciplinary approach is necessary to consider all the interactions between the different components of the design. In this work a complete design methodology is proposed, tackling at once the aspects of hardware architecture, programming model and design automation. The proposed design flow has been used in the implementation of a multiprocessor Network-on-Chip based system, the NoCRay graphic accelerator. The system uses 8 Tensilica LX processors and has been physically implemented on a Xilinx Virtex-4 LX-160 FPGA reporting a 17.3M equivalent gate-count. Performance are compared with a commercial general purpose processor and show good results considering the low frequency of the prototype.
A methodology and a case-study for Network-on-Chipbased MP-SoC architectures / TOTA S.V; CASU M.R.; MOTTO P; RUO ROCH M; ZAMBONI M. - ELETTRONICO. - (2007). ((Intervento presentato al convegno Second International Conference on Nano-Networks (Nano-Net 2007) tenutosi a Catania nel 24-26 Sept. 2007.
Titolo: | A methodology and a case-study for Network-on-Chipbased MP-SoC architectures |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2007 |
Abstract: | The many-core design paradigm requires flexible and modular hardware and software components to p...rovide the required scalability of next-generation on-chip multiprocessor architectures. A multidisciplinary approach is necessary to consider all the interactions between the different components of the design. In this work a complete design methodology is proposed, tackling at once the aspects of hardware architecture, programming model and design automation. The proposed design flow has been used in the implementation of a multiprocessor Network-on-Chip based system, the NoCRay graphic accelerator. The system uses 8 Tensilica LX processors and has been physically implemented on a Xilinx Virtex-4 LX-160 FPGA reporting a 17.3M equivalent gate-count. Performance are compared with a commercial general purpose processor and show good results considering the low frequency of the prototype. |
ISBN: | 9789639799103 |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno |
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