Title :
Exploring FPGA Capabilities for Building Symmetric Multiprocessor Systems
Author :
Huerta, Pablo ; Castillo, Javier ; Martínez, Jose Ignacio ; Pedraza, César
Author_Institution :
Univ. Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid
Abstract :
Advances in FPGA technologies allow designing highly complex systems using on-chip FPGA resources and intellectual property (IP) cores. Furthermore, it is possible to build multiprocessor systems using hard-core or soft-core processors increasing the range of applications that can be implemented on an FPGA. This paper presents an implementation of a symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) system on an FPGA using a vendor provided soft-core processor and a new set of software libraries specially developed for writing applications for this kind of systems. Experimental results show how this approach can improve performance of parallelizable software applications.
Keywords :
electronic engineering computing; field programmable gate arrays; logic design; multiprocessing systems; software libraries; system-on-chip; FPGA technology; field programmable gate array; intellectual property core; soft-core processor; software library; symmetric multiprocessor system; Application software; Buildings; Computer architecture; Field programmable gate arrays; Multiprocessing systems; Random access memory; Software performance; System buses; System-on-a-chip; Writing;
Conference_Titel :
Programmable Logic, 2007. SPL '07. 2007 3rd Southern Conference on
Conference_Location :
Mar del Plata
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0606-4
DOI :
10.1109/SPL.2007.371733
