Comparison of On-chip Communications in Zynq-7000 All Programmable Systems-on-Chip

Author

Silva, Joao ; Sklyarov, Valery ; Skliarova, Iouliia

Author_Institution

Telecommun. Inst., Univ. of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

Volume

7

Issue

1

fYear

2015

fDate

Mar-15

Firstpage

31

Lastpage

34

Abstract

This letter analyses and compares on-chip interfaces for hardware/software communications in the Zynq-7000 all programmable systems-on-chip. Many experiments were carried out to evaluate the exchange of data between the processing system and the programmable logic through general-purpose and high-performance ports; the experiments were conducted for both standalone and Linux applications. The results enable the most effective interfaces for specific types of data to be identified and the effectiveness of Zynq-based hardware accelerators to be assessed.

Keywords

Linux; programmable logic devices; system-on-chip; Linux application; Zynq-7000; all programmable systems-on-chip; hardware accelerator; hardware communication; on-chip communication; on-chip interface; processing system; programmable logic; software communication; Clocks; Data transfer; Hardware; Ports (Computers); Random access memory; Software; System-on-chip; All programmable systems-on-chip; communication overheads; high-performance ports; processing system; programmable logic;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Embedded Systems Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1943-0663

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LES.2015.2399656

Filename

7029633