TY - GEN
T1 - A reconfigurable platform for the design and verification of domain-specific accelerators
AU - Park, Sungho
AU - Cho, Yong Cheol Peter
AU - Irick, Kevin M.
AU - Narayanan, Vijaykrishnan
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - In this paper we present Vortex: a reconfigurable Network-on-Chip platform suitable for implementing domain-specific hardware accelerators in a design efficient manner. Our Vortex platform provides a flexible means to compose domain-specific accelerators for streaming applications such as performance critical machine vision systems. By substituting a traditional shared-bus architecture with low latency packet-switched routers and high utility network adaptors, maximum performance is exploited with minimal regard to communication infrastructure design and validation. To highlight the utility of the Vortex platform we present a case study in which a video analytics pipeline is mapped onto a multi-FPGA system. The system meets real-time throughput requirements on 3 Megapixel 48-bit image sequences with minimal resource overhead attributed to the Vortex communication infrastructure.
AB - In this paper we present Vortex: a reconfigurable Network-on-Chip platform suitable for implementing domain-specific hardware accelerators in a design efficient manner. Our Vortex platform provides a flexible means to compose domain-specific accelerators for streaming applications such as performance critical machine vision systems. By substituting a traditional shared-bus architecture with low latency packet-switched routers and high utility network adaptors, maximum performance is exploited with minimal regard to communication infrastructure design and validation. To highlight the utility of the Vortex platform we present a case study in which a video analytics pipeline is mapped onto a multi-FPGA system. The system meets real-time throughput requirements on 3 Megapixel 48-bit image sequences with minimal resource overhead attributed to the Vortex communication infrastructure.
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U2 - 10.1109/ASPDAC.2012.6164928
DO - 10.1109/ASPDAC.2012.6164928
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84859948080
SN - 9781467307727
T3 - Proceedings of the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC
SP - 108
EP - 113
BT - ASP-DAC 2012 - 17th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
T2 - 17th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC 2012
Y2 - 30 January 2012 through 2 February 2012
ER -