Design of adaptive multiprocessor on chip systems
Chritophe Bobda, Thomas Haller, Felix Muehlbauer, Dennis Rech, Simon Jung · 2007
We present a design approach for adaptive multiprocessors on chip, in particular for FPGA devices. The approach consists of two steps in which the hardware infrastructure is first generated and then, the single processors, the peripherals as well as the custom hardware components are configured. In order to automatize the design process, to have the maximum freedom from the current design tools and hide their complexity to the designer, a platform independent tool was developed. As case study, we implemented the singular value decomposition (SVD) on the Xilinx ML310-Board with up to 8 processors. The results show considerable speed-up of the multiprocessor solutions produced toward the single processor ones.