On computation and resource management in an FPGA-based computation environment

Authors:
Soheil Ghiasi;Karlene Nguyen;Elaheh Bozorgzadeh;Majid Sarrafzadeh
Affiliations:
UCLA, Los Angeles;UCLA, Los Angeles;UCLA, Los Angeles;UCLA, Los Angeles
Venue:
FPGA '03 Proceedings of the 2003 ACM/SIGDA eleventh international symposium on Field programmable gate arrays
Year:
2003

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Abstract

The idea of managing the comprising computations of an application executed in an FPGA-based system is presented. An efficient algorithm for exploiting the timing slack of building blocks of the application is proposed. The slack of these blocks can be utilized by replacing them with slower but "cheaper" modules and by assigning the computations to the proper resources. Thus, our approach manages the comprising computations and system resources at the same time. This is performed without compromising the timing constraints of the application and can lead to significant improvements in power dissipation, computation accuracy or other design metrics based on the application domain. Our algorithm is well-suited for arbitrary tree computations. Moreover, it delivers solutions that are desirably close to the optimal solution. Experimental results for a number of object tracking applications executed on resources embedded in cameras, show a significant amount of slack utilization.