• DocumentCode
    2731034
  • Title

    Scalable storage architecture in modular hardware accelerators

  • Author

    Khoo, Khai Lik ; Ain, Mohd Fadzil ; Teh, Chee Hak ; Leow, Weng Li

  • Author_Institution
    Electr. & Electron. Eng. Dept., Univ. Sains Malaysia, Nibong Tebal, Malaysia
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    25-28 Sept. 2011
  • Firstpage
    425
  • Lastpage
    430
  • Abstract
    In this modern technology era, in System on Chip (SoC) design, performance of processing units in computer is always on demand. By having hardware accelerators in computer system, core processor can offload task to it and this creates parallel execution to improve the processing speed. One of the functional blocks that are crucial in Hardware Accelerator´s design is Storage Unit, which is used to keep data that is needed for processing or either the processed data. Under conventional hardware accelerator´s design, the storage architecture is shaped to suit a certain processing algorithm and this introduced less flexibility in SoC design. In this paper, a novel design of storage architecture that is able to handle multiple accelerator engines and also modular to typical specification of hardware accelerators has been implemented.
  • Keywords
    memory architecture; system-on-chip; SoC design; computer system; core processor; data processing; hardware accelerators; modular hardware accelerator engine; parallel execution; processing speed; processing unit performance; scalable storage architecture; storage architecture; system on chip design; Buffer storage; Computer architecture; Engines; Generators; Hardware; Random access memory; System-on-a-chip; Hardware Accelerator; Storage Architecture;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Industrial Electronics and Applications (ISIEA), 2011 IEEE Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Langkawi
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1418-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISIEA.2011.6108744
  • Filename
    6108744