Processors White Papers
A Study of the Speedups and Competitiveness of FPGA Soft Processor Cores Using Dynamic Hardware/Software Partitioning
Overview Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) provide designers with the ability to quickly create hardware circuits. Increases in FPGA configurable logic capacity and decreasing FPGA costs have enabled designers to more readily incorporate FPGAs in their designs. While FPGAs with soft processor cores provide designers with increased flexibility, such processors typically have degraded performance and energy consumption compared to hard-core processors. Previously, this paper proposed warp processing, a technique capable of optimizing a software application by dynamically and transparently re-implementing critical software kernels as custom circuits in on-chip configurable logic. This paper studies the potential of a MicroBlaze soft-core based warp processing system to eliminate the performance and energy overhead of a soft-core processor compared to a hard-core processor.
| Publisher | University of California | File Format | |
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| Date Published | December 2004 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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