This paper presents a framework to design a shared memory multiprocessor on a programmable platform. We propose a complete flow, composed by a programming model and a template architecture. Our framework permits to write a parallel application by using a shared memory model. It deals with the consistency of shared data, with no need of hardware coherence protocol, but uses a software model to properlyallsynchronize the local copies with the shared memory image. This idea can be applied both to a scratchpad-based architecture or a cache-based one. The architecture is synthesizable with standard IPs, such as the softcores and interconnect elements, which may be found in any commercial FPGA toolset.

A Design Kit for a Fully Working Shared Memory Multiprocessor on FPGA

FERRANDI, FABRIZIO;MONCHIERO, MATTEO;PALERMO, GIANLUCA;SCIUTO, DONATELLA;TUMEO, ANTONINO
2007-01-01

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This paper presents a framework to design a shared memory multiprocessor on a programmable platform. We propose a complete flow, composed by a programming model and a template architecture. Our framework permits to write a parallel application by using a shared memory model. It deals with the consistency of shared data, with no need of hardware coherence protocol, but uses a software model to properlyallsynchronize the local copies with the shared memory image. This idea can be applied both to a scratchpad-based architecture or a cache-based one. The architecture is synthesizable with standard IPs, such as the softcores and interconnect elements, which may be found in any commercial FPGA toolset.
2007
Proceedings of the 17th ACM Great Lakes symposium on VLSI
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