期刊名称:International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing
印刷版ISSN:1687-7195
电子版ISSN:1687-7209
出版年度:2012
卷号:2012
DOI:10.1155/2012/872610
出版社:Hindawi Publishing Corporation
摘要:The reconfigurable data-stream hardware software architecture (Redsharc) is a programming model and
network-on-a-chip solution designed to scale to meet the performance needs of multi-core Systems on a programmable chip (MCSoPC). Redsharc uses an abstract API that allows programmers to develop systems of simultaneously executing kernels, in software and/or hardware, that communicate over a seamless interface. Redsharc incorporates two on-chip networks that directly implement the API to support high-performance systems with numerous hardware kernels. This paper documents the API, describes the common infrastructure, and quantifies the performance of a complete implementation. Furthermore, the overhead, in terms of resource utilization, is reported along with the ability to integrate hard and soft processor cores with purely hardware kernels being demonstrated.