Comparing FPGA vs. custom CMOS and the impact on processor microarchitecture

H Wong, V Betz, J Rose - Proceedings of the 19th ACM/SIGDA …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
As soft processors are increasingly used in diverse applications, there is a need to evolve
their microarchitectures in a way that suits the FPGA implementation substrate. This paper …

Intel Nehalem processor core made FPGA synthesizable

G Schelle, J Collins, E Schuchman, P Wang… - Proceedings of the 18th …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
We present a FPGA-synthesizable version of the Intel Nehalem processor core, synthesized,
partitioned and mapped to a multi-FPGA emulation system consisting of Xilinx Virtex-4 and …

ProtoFlex: Towards scalable, full-system multiprocessor simulations using FPGAs

ES Chung, MK Papamichael, E Nurvitadhi… - ACM Transactions on …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
Functional full-system simulators are powerful and versatile research tools for accelerating
architectural exploration and advanced software development. Their main shortcoming is …

HMTT: a platform independent full-system memory trace monitoring system

Y Bao, M Chen, Y Ruan, L Liu, J Fan, Q Yuan… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - dl.acm.org
Memory trace analysis is an important technology for architecture research, system software
(ie, OS, compiler) optimization, and application performance improvements. Many …

Vector processing as a soft processor accelerator

J Yu, C Eagleston, CHY Chou, M Perreault… - ACM Transactions on …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
Current FPGA soft processor systems use dedicated hardware modules or accelerators to
speed up data-parallel applications. This work explores an alternative approach of using a …

Pangaea: a tightly-coupled IA32 heterogeneous chip multiprocessor

H Wong, A Bracy, E Schuchman, TM Aamodt… - Proceedings of the 17th …, 2008 - dl.acm.org
Moore's Law and the drive towards performance efficiency have led to the on-chip
integration of general-purpose cores with special-purpose accelerators. Pangaea is a …

Intel® atom™ processor core made FPGA-synthesizable

PH Wang, JD Collins, CT Weaver, B Kuttanna… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
We present an FPGA-synthesizable version of the Intel Atom processor core, synthesized to
a Virtex-5 based FPGA emulation system. To make the production Atom design in …

A complexity-effective architecture for accelerating full-system multiprocessor simulations using FPGAs

ES Chung, E Nurvitadhi, JC Hoe, B Falsafi… - Proceedings of the 16th …, 2008 - dl.acm.org
Functional full-system simulators are powerful and versatile research tools for accelerating
architectural exploration and advanced software development. Their main shortcoming is …

Microscope on memory: MPSoC-enabled computer memory system assessments

AK Jain, S Lloyd, M Gokhale - 2018 IEEE 26th Annual …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances in new memory technologies and packaging options has focused attention
on computer memory system design and evaluation. Examples include high bandwidth …

Quantifying the gap between fpga and custom cmos to aid microarchitectural design

H Wong, V Betz, J Rose - … on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper compares the delay and area of a comprehensive set of processor building block
circuits when implemented on custom CMOS and FPGA substrates, then uses these results …