Efficient runtime performance monitoring of FPGA-based applications

Joseph M. Lancaster, Jeremy D. Buhler, Roger D. Chamberlain

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Abstract

Embedded computing platforms have long incorporated non-traditional architectures (e.g., FPGAs, ASICs) to combat the diminishing returns of Moore's Law as applied to traditional processors. These specialized architectures can offer higher performance potential in a smaller space, higher power efficiency, and competitive costs. A price is paid, however, in development difficulty in determining functional correctness and understanding the performance of such a system. In this paper we focus on improving the task of performance debugging streaming applications deployed on FPGAs. We describe our runtime performance monitoring infrastructure, its capabilities and overheads on several different configurations of the monitor. We then employ the monitoring system to study the performance effects of provisioning resources for Mercury BLASTN, an implementation of the BLASTN sequence comparison application on an FPGA-accelerated system.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - IEEE International SOC Conference, SOCC 2009
Pages23-28
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
EventIEEE International SOC Conference, SOCC 2009 - Belfast, Ireland
Duration: Sep 9 2009Sep 11 2009

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE International SOC Conference, SOCC 2009

Conference

ConferenceIEEE International SOC Conference, SOCC 2009
Country/TerritoryIreland
CityBelfast
Period09/9/0909/11/09

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