Title: From software to accelerators with LegUp high-level synthesis
Abstract: Embedded system designers can achieve energy and performance benefits by using dedicated hardware accelerators. However, implementing custom hardware accelerators for an application can be difficult and time intensive. LegUp is an open-source high-level synthesis framework that simplifies the hardware accelerator design process [8]. With LegUp, a designer can start from an embedded application running on a processor and incrementally migrate portions of the program to hardware accelerators implemented on an FPGA. The final application then executes on an automatically-generated software/hardware coprocessor system. This paper presents on overview of the LegUp design methodology and system architecture, and discusses ongoing work on profiling, hardware/software partitioning, hardware accelerator quality improvements, Pthreads/OpenMP support, visualization tools, and debugging support.
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-09-29
Language: en
Type: article
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