Fundamentals of queueing theory (2nd ed.).
Fundamentals of queueing theory (2nd ed.).
Parallel discrete event simulation
WSC '89 Proceedings of the 21st conference on Winter simulation
LECSIM: a levelized event driven compiled logic simulation
DAC '90 Proceedings of the 27th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
An optimal on-line algorithm for metrical task system
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Adaptive protocols for parallel discrete event simulation
WSC '96 Proceedings of the 28th conference on Winter simulation
A polylog(n)-competitive algorithm for metrical task systems
STOC '97 Proceedings of the twenty-ninth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
Configuration prefetch for single context reconfigurable coprocessors
FPGA '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM/SIGDA sixth international symposium on Field programmable gate arrays
ANSS '91 Proceedings of the 24th annual symposium on Simulation
Dynamic hardware plugins in an FPGA with partial run-time reconfiguration
Proceedings of the 39th annual Design Automation Conference
Scheduling for Embedded Real-Time Systems
IEEE Design & Test
Average-Case Competitive Analyses for Ski-Rental Problems
ISAAC '02 Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation
Dynamic run-time HW/SW scheduling techniques for reconfigurable architectures
Proceedings of the tenth international symposium on Hardware/software codesign
Performance of Remote FPGA-Based Coprocessors for Image-Processing Applications
DSD '02 Proceedings of the Euromicro Symposium on Digital Systems Design
Garp: a MIPS processor with a reconfigurable coprocessor
FCCM '97 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE Symposium on FPGA-Based Custom Computing Machines
A New Optimized Implemention of the SystemC Engine Using Acyclic Scheduling
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe - Volume 1
Speeding up SystemC simulation through process splitting
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe
Dynamic coprocessor management for FPGA-enhanced compute platforms
CASES '08 Proceedings of the 2008 international conference on Compilers, architectures and synthesis for embedded systems
Transmuting coprocessors: dynamic loading of FPGA coprocessors
Proceedings of the 46th Annual Design Automation Conference
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Field-programmable gates arrays (FPGAs) have recently been used to emulate SystemC descriptions. Emulation of SystemC descriptions allows for in-system testing, and has been shown to compare favorably with SystemC simulations on a PC when acceleration engines are employed. A limit on the number of acceleration engines that can fit on a SystemC emulation platform creates new dynamic management problems involving decisions as to when and which acceleration engines to load with SystemC bytecode. We define an acceleration management problem for SystemC emulation platforms. In contrast to previous works that focus on statically improving SystemC (and the more general event-driven) simulations, we utilize dynamic online algorithms to manage the use of a limited number of SystemC acceleration engines in an emulation framework, where the kernel must adapt and react to a dynamically changing event queue. We test several online heuristics, and show that we can achieve 14X improvement over software-only emulation and 3.8X over statically preloading SystemC acceleration engines.