Energye cient architecture for cnns inference on heterogeneous fpga fanny spagnolo 1, stefania perri 2. These heterogeneous multiprocessor systemonchip htmpsoc architectures will allow the design of very complex systemonchips soc on a single fpga chip and will fulfill modern application requirements, in terms of performanceenergy consumption ratio. Such an fpga is named as application specific inflexible fpga asif. So, it works for all operating systems including mac, windows, and linux. Tree based architecture with heterogeneous logic blocks. This paper introduces an efficient automatic floorplanning algorithm, which takes into account the heterogeneous architectures of modern fpga families, as well as pr constraints, introducing the aspect ratio constraint to. Indeed, we use a strategy taking into account not only resource allocation but also the dynamic reallocation in order to anticipate the onset of overloads. A treebased architecture is a hierarchical architecture having unidirectional interconnect.
This environment is flexible in nature and allows to explore different architecture techniques with varying types of hardblocks. The proposed experimental flow for design and exploration of 3d treebased fpga architecture is illustrated in fig. Pdf exploration of heterogeneous fpga architectures. Highperformance, costeffective heterogeneous 3d fpga. Fpga clb architecture, and provide depopulation strategies. In this chapter we present a method to optimize an fpga for a particular domain of applications. Leveraging heterogeneous fpga wires to design lowcost highperformance soft nocs nachiket kapre. Exploring sequence alignment algorithms on fpgabased. A heterogeneous asif can contain hardblocks such as multipliers, adders, rams etc. Treebased heterogeneous fpga architectures springerlink. On the comparison of memristortransistor hybrid and. This book presents a new fpga architecture known as treebased fpga architecture, due to its hierarchical nature. Design and optimization of heterogeneous treebased fpga using 3d technology. Rapid implementation and optimisation of dsp systems on.
Why must be book treebased heterogeneous fpga architectures book is one of by getting the writer and also motif to get, you can find many titles that supply both mesh and treebased architectures are evaluated for three sets of benchmark circuits. During past few years, the advancement in process technology has resulted in a great increase in the capacity of fpgas. Fpga based heterogeneous architectures are attracting everincreasing attention from both academia and industry in an attempt to advance computational capabilities and energy ef. In this work, we exploit the heterogeneous architecture. Exploration and optimization of treebased fpga architectures tel. This includes lookup table lutbased fpga technology mapping and previous work on heterogeneous fpga architecture. Request pdf tree based heterogeneous fpga architectures, application specific exploration and optimization this book presents a new fpga architecture known as treebased fpga architecture, due. Split merge and connect 12 were early efforts in this direction, and reduced lut costs. Unconventional architectures with reconfigurable computing. Our study of heterogeneous computing extends the analytical modeling for chip multiprocessors by hill and marty 11 to include ucores based on unconventional computing paradigms such as custom logic, fpgas, or gpus. Heterogeneous compute is required to provide further performance scaling and reducing power consumption accelerator integration transitions from loosely coupled io device, coherent accelerators capi, qpi, ccix to onchip integration with processors and memory computing. A detailed comparison between different techniques of the two architectures is performed and results show that on average, treebased architecture gives better overall results than meshbased architecture. Treebased heterogeneous fpga architectures megabooks cz.
Accelerating equijoin on a cpufpga heterogeneous platform. Treebased asif using heterogeneous blocks springerlink. Exploration of heterogeneous fpga architectures core. It will be proven that a combination of a fifobased merge sorter and a treebased merge sorter results in the best performance at low cost. No single approach is capable of solving the rapid implementation problem for heterogeneous processing architectures on fpga. Heterogeneous architectures for implementation of high. Although the e ciency of fpga platforms in the implementation of arti. Exploration environment for 3d heterogeneous treebased fpga architectures 3d ht fpga conference paper pdf available december 20 with 9 reads how we measure reads.
Exploring sequence alignment algorithms on fpga based heterogeneous architectures xin chang 1, fernando a. Applicationspecific meshbased heterogeneous fpga architectures. A heterogeneous treebased architecture is a hierarchical architecture having unidirectional interconnect. Fieldprogrammable gate arrays fpgas were introduced more than three decades ago, and since then they have evolved, giving way to new generations of fpgas with better. Generalized mesh and treebased fpga architectures are further improved by turning them into application specific fpgas. Technology mapping and architecture of heterogeneous field. In this book, we explore and optimize the treebased architecture and we evaluate it by comparing it to equivalent meshbased fpga architectures. This type of architecture has been relatively unexplored despite their better performance and predictable routing behavior, as compared to meshbased fpga architectures. Generalized and programmable nature of field programmable gate arrays fpgas has made them a popular choice for the implementation of digital circuits. Pdf high performance 3dimensional heterogeneous tree.
Efficient fpga floorplanning for partial reconfiguration. In heterogeneous treebased architecture clbs, ios and hbs are partitioned into a multilevel clustered structure where each cluster contains sub clusters and switch blocks allow. Pdf a new datapathoriented treebased fpga architecture. Three factors combine to determine the characteristics of an fpga. A general neural network hardware architecture on fpga. Exploration and optimization of application specific heterogeneous treebased fpga architectures. Heterogeneous architectures for implementation of highcapacity hyperconverged storage devices who xilinx research and missing link electronics why highcapacity hyperconverged storage needs predictable scalability in performance, and programmability for flexibility what a singlechip heterogeneous compute solution for terabit per. This paper analyses different hardware sorting architectures in order to implement a highly scaleable sorter for solving huge problems at high performance up to the gb range in linear time complexity. Tree based heterogeneous fpga architectures, application. Since then they have seen a rapid growth and have become a popular implementation media for digital. In this book, we explore and optimize the treebased architecture and we evaluate it by comparing it to. The symmetric multicore in a resembles the architecture of commercial. Virtexii pro from xilinx means establishing an effective rapid implementation flow for such a platform is difficult. Demonstrate detailed system design approach to map a large scale merge sort tree onto the heterogeneous cpu fpga.
Fpga and processor combinations deliver flexibility, computing power and savings to advanced embedded systems. An asif that is reduced from a heterogeneous fpga is called as heterogeneous asif. Heterogeneous architectures exploration environments. Treebased heterogeneous fpga architectures application. In this paper, we speedup equijoin using a hybrid cpu fpga heterogeneous platform. Logic area of an fpga is composed of sum of area of all the clbs and hbs in the architecture. Exploration and optimization of application specific. Save up to 80% by choosing the etextbook option for isbn.
The relatively recent emergence and rapid evolution of fpga singlechip processing platforms e. These architectures provide programmers with the ability to customize their hard. Design and optimization of heterogeneous treebased fpga. Next generation fpga circuits will allow the integration of dozens of hard and soft cores as well as dedicated accelerators in the same chip. This book presents a new fpga architecture known as treebased fpga. Hardware resource utilization optimization in fpgabased. Figure 1 illustrates the chip models used in our study. Pdf exploration environment for 3d heterogeneous tree.
We describe the 3d design and optimization methodology to improve speed, interconnect. Both mesh and treebased architectures are evaluated for three sets of benchmark circuits. A fieldprogrammable gate array fpga is an integrated circuit designed to be configured by a customer or a designer after manufacturing hence the term fieldprogrammable. Application specific exploration and optimization farooq, umer, marrakchi, zied, mehrez, habib on. Unlike meshbased architecture where logic and routing resources are arranged in islandstyle, in a treebased architecture, logic and routing resources are arranged in hierarchical manner. Architecture level optimization of 3dimensional tree. With the rapid development of dna sequencer, the rate of. This is the most commonly used architecture among academic and commercial fpgas. The hdl code generator is designed to generate vhdl code based on a hierarchical design approach that partitions the design into smaller sections, implements them separately and assembles them together at the final design phase. Treebased application specific inflexible fpga springerlink. Based on the architecture, different types and scales of neural networks can be implemented and the. The fpga configuration is generally specified using a hardware description language hdl, similar to that used for an applicationspecific integrated circuit asic. To alleviate the burden of memory usage for sorting, we propose a merge sort based hybrid design where the.
Tree based heterogeneous fpga architectures, application specific exploration and optimization. As shown in figure 1, we generalize the description of these two approaches of grouping pes in 18 to include both fpga and gpu technologies in each node. A new datapathoriented treebased fpga architecture. Area of a heterogeneous fpga can be mainly divided into two parts. In addition, we consider in this work the two phases of mapping.
For this reason, we have devised an area model based on the area of cells used by the fpga architecture. Treebased heterogeneous fpga architectures application specific exploration and optimization by umer farooq. Field programmable gate arrays fpgas were first introduced almost two and a half decades ago. In order to generate a heterogeneous asif, first a minimal fpga architecture is defined that can implement any of the applications under consideration. In fact fpgas provide a large degree of freedom in their architectures which has not been fully explored yet and there is a big room for improvement in fpga architectures. Business electronics and electrical industries digital integrated circuits economic aspects energy use technology application embedded. In this work, first we present a new environment for exploration of treebased heterogeneous fpga architecture. A new heterogeneous treebased application specific fpga.
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