Journal Article

Redsharc : A Programming Model and On-Chip Network for Multi-Core Systems on a Programmable Chip

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

2012

Overview

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.

• Publisher: Hindawi Puplishing Corporation,Hindawi Publishing Corporation,Wiley