Towards a Configurable Many-core Accelerator for FPGA-based Embedded Systems
: Ramirez M, Daneshtalab M, Liljeberg P, Plosila J
: 2013
: Reconfigurable and Communication-Centric Systems-on-Chip (ReCoSoC), 2013 8th International Workshop on
: 2013 8TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON RECONFIGURABLE AND COMMUNICATION-CENTRIC SYSTEMS-ON-CHIP (RECOSOC)
: 4
: 978-1-4673-6180-4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ReCoSoC.2013.6581548
Hardware accelerators release the general purpose processor of a system from very compute-demanding tasks. This work presents a Configurable Many-core Accelerator for FPGA-based systems, named CoMA. Its architecture combines an array of processing cores interconnected by an NoC, with an I/O interface based on the AXI protocol. CoMA provides the designer with a system abstraction layer that facilitates task partitioning and peripheral access. The implementation of the I/O interface was verified through simulation, and synthesized for an FPGA.