Title :
Benchmarking Reconfigurable Architectures in the Mobile Domain
Author :
Jamieson, P. ; Becker, T. ; Luk, W. ; Cheung, P.Y.K. ; Rissa, T. ; Pitkänen, T.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput., Imperial Coll. London, London, UK
Abstract :
In this paper, we introduce GroundHog 2009 benchmarking suite that can be used to evaluate the power consumption of reconfigurable technology implementing applications targeting the mobile computing domain. This benchmark suite includes seven designs; one design targets fine-grained FPGA fabrics, and six designs are specified at a high level, which allows them to target a range of reconfigurable technologies. Each of the six designs can be stimulated with synthetically generated input stimuli created by a tool included in the suite. Additionally, another tool can help verify the correctness of each implemented design. Finally,we use our benchmark suite to evaluate the power consumption of two modern FPGAs targeting the mobile domain.
Keywords :
benchmark testing; field programmable gate arrays; mobile computing; power consumption; reconfigurable architectures; GroundHog 2009 benchmarking suite; fine-grained FPGA fabrics; input stimuli; mobile computing; power consumption; reconfigurable architectures; Benchmark testing; Computer architecture; Educational institutions; Energy consumption; Fabrics; Field programmable gate arrays; Mobile computing; Power measurement; Reconfigurable architectures; Research and development; FPGA; Low Power; Mobile Domain; Reconfigurable Architectures;
Conference_Titel :
Field Programmable Custom Computing Machines, 2009. FCCM '09. 17th IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Napa, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3716-0
DOI :
10.1109/FCCM.2009.13
