A Message-Passing Hardware/Software Co-simulation Environment to Aid in Reconfigurable Computing Design Using TMD-MPI
A Message-Passing Hardware/Software Co-simulation Environment to Aid in Reconfigurable Computing Design Using TMD-MPI
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消息传递硬件/软件协同仿真环境，有助于使用 TMD-MPI 进行可重构计算设计
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2008
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P. Chow
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Manuel Saldaña;Emanuel Ramalho;P. Chow
高性能重新配置计算机（HPRC）提供了标准处理器和FPGA的混合，以共同加速应用程序。这引入了新的设计挑战，例如需要HPRC的便携式编程模型以及系统级验证工具。在本文中，我们将先前的TMD-MPI工作扩展到了基于MPI的方法，以在FPGA内部X86处理器和硬件引擎之间进行交换数据，从而通过隐藏特定于供应商的通信详细信息来改善设计可移植性。此外，我们创建了一个称为消息模拟框架（MSF）的工具，我们用来开发TMD-MPI本身以及一个应用程序开发工具，该工具使FPGA可以模拟中的FPGA与其他X86处理器交换消息。例如，我们使用Intel-FSB-FPGA平台模拟LinPack基准硬件核心，以快速原型原型，以测试通信并验证基准结果。
High-performance reconfigurable computers (HPRC) provide a mix of standard processors and FPGAs to collectively accelerate applications. This introduces new design challenges, such as the need for portable programming models across HPRCs, and system-level verification tools. In this paper, we extend previous work on TMD-MPI to include an MPI-based approach to exchange data between X86 processors and hardware engines inside FPGAs that improves design portability by hiding vendor-specific communication details. Also, we have created a tool called the message-passing simulation framework (MSF) that we use to develop TMD-MPI itself as well as an application development tool that enables an FPGA in simulation to exchange messages with other X86 processors. As an example, we simulate a LINPACK benchmark hardware core using an Intel-FSB-FPGA platform to quickly prototype the hardware, to test the communications and to verify the benchmark results.