A platform for dynamic thermal management of FPGA-based soft-core processors via Dynamic Frequency Scaling

Author

Chafi, Poorya Raoofi ; Moradi, Morteza ; Rahmanikia, Navid ; Noori, Hamid

Author_Institution

Fac. of Eng., Ferdowsi Univ. of Mashhad (FUM), Mashhad, Iran

fYear

2015

fDate

10-14 May 2015

Firstpage

1093

Lastpage

1097

Abstract

Thermal management is one of the main challenges in designing embedded systems. One of the common approaches for implementing embedded systems is using FPGAs and their soft-processors. The current work focuses on providing a platform for dynamic thermal management (DTM) of an FPGA-based processor system using Dynamic Frequency Scaling (DFS). At first, a platform with a soft-core processor is established that is able to control the system clock frequency using thermal feedback of the FPGA at run-time. Then, several thermal management algorithms are proposed to explore the merit of this design.

Keywords

clocks; embedded systems; field programmable gate arrays; frequency control; microprocessor chips; thermal management (packaging); DFS; DTM; FPGA-based processor system; FPGAs; dynamic frequency scaling; dynamic thermal management; embedded system design; soft-core processors; system clock frequency control; thermal feedback; Conferences; Decision support systems; Electrical engineering; FPGA; dynamic frequency scaling; dynamic thermal management; soft-core processor;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Engineering (ICEE), 2015 23rd Iranian Conference on

Conference_Location

Tehran

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1971-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IranianCEE.2015.7146375

Filename

7146375