ALMARVI Execution Platform: Heterogeneous Video Processing SoC Platform on FPGA

The proliferation of processing hardware alternatives allows developers to use various customized computing platforms to run their applications in an optimal way. However, porting application code on custom hardware requires a lot of development and porting effort. This paper describes a heterogeneo...

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Autores principales: Hoozemans, Joost, van Straten, Jeroen, Viitanen, Timo, Tervo, Aleksi, Kadlec, Jiri, Al-Ars, Zaid
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Publicado: Springer US 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6390713/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30873260
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11265-018-1424-1
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author Hoozemans, Joost
van Straten, Jeroen
Viitanen, Timo
Tervo, Aleksi
Kadlec, Jiri
Al-Ars, Zaid
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description The proliferation of processing hardware alternatives allows developers to use various customized computing platforms to run their applications in an optimal way. However, porting application code on custom hardware requires a lot of development and porting effort. This paper describes a heterogeneous computational platform (the ALMARVI execution platform) comprising of multiple communicating processors that allow easy programmability through an interface to OpenCL. The ALMARVI platform uses processing elements based on both VLIW and Transport Triggered Architectures (ρ-VEX and TCE cores, respectively). It can be implemented on Zynq devices such as the ZedBoard, and supports OpenCL by means of the pocl (Portable OpenCL) project and our ALMAIF interface specification. This allows developers to execute kernels transparently on either processing elements, thereby allowing to optimize execution time with minimal design and development effort.
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spelling pubmed-63907132019-03-12 ALMARVI Execution Platform: Heterogeneous Video Processing SoC Platform on FPGA Hoozemans, Joost van Straten, Jeroen Viitanen, Timo Tervo, Aleksi Kadlec, Jiri Al-Ars, Zaid J Signal Process Syst Article The proliferation of processing hardware alternatives allows developers to use various customized computing platforms to run their applications in an optimal way. However, porting application code on custom hardware requires a lot of development and porting effort. This paper describes a heterogeneous computational platform (the ALMARVI execution platform) comprising of multiple communicating processors that allow easy programmability through an interface to OpenCL. The ALMARVI platform uses processing elements based on both VLIW and Transport Triggered Architectures (ρ-VEX and TCE cores, respectively). It can be implemented on Zynq devices such as the ZedBoard, and supports OpenCL by means of the pocl (Portable OpenCL) project and our ALMAIF interface specification. This allows developers to execute kernels transparently on either processing elements, thereby allowing to optimize execution time with minimal design and development effort. Springer US 2019-01-02 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6390713/ /pubmed/30873260 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11265-018-1424-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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ALMARVI Execution Platform: Heterogeneous Video Processing SoC Platform on FPGA
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6390713/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30873260
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11265-018-1424-1
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