Felipe T. Bortolon
Fernando G. Moraes
ABSTRACT
Many-core systems are increasingly popular in embedded systems due to their high-performance and flexibility to execute different workloads. These many-core systems provide a rich processing fabric but lack the flexibility to accelerate critical operations with dedicated hardware cores. Modern Field Programmable Gate-Arrays (FPGAs) evolved to more than reconfigurable devices, providing embedded hard-core processors with several IP cores. While FPGAs provide a rich reconfigurable hardware fabric, only one or two embedded hard-core processors are available to execute complex software applications. Therefore, modern FPGAs offer the possibility to merge the benefits of many-core systems with the reconfigurability of FPGAs. The goal of this paper is to present an infrastructure to implement many-core systems in modern FPGAs. An embedded hard-core processor is used to manage the many-core area, and to communicate with a host computer. A functional proof-of-concept system is presented, paving the way to connect dedicated hardware IPs into the NoC.
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Index Terms
- Hardware and software infrastructure to implement many-core systems in modern FPGAs
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