Abstract

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.

Date

2012

Authors

William V Kritikos, Andrew G Schmidt, Ron Sass, Erik K Anderson, Matthew French

Journal

International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing

Volume

2012

Issue

1

Pages

872610

Publisher

Hindawi Publishing Corporation