Performance Modeling for FPGAs : Extending the Roofline Model with High-Level Synthesis Tools

Joint Authors

D’Hollander, Erik H.
da Silva, Bruno
Touhafi, Abdellah
Braeken, An

Source

International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing

Issue

Vol. 2013, Issue 2013 (31 Dec. 2013), pp.1-10, 10 p.

Publisher

Hindawi Publishing Corporation

Publication Date

2013-12-26

Country of Publication

Egypt

No. of Pages

10

Main Subjects

Information Technology and Computer Science

Abstract EN

The potential of FPGAs as accelerators for high-performance computing applications is very large, but many factors are involved in their performance.

The design for FPGAs and the selection of the proper optimizations when mapping computations to FPGAs lead to prohibitively long developing time.

Alternatives are the high-level synthesis (HLS) tools, which promise a fast design space exploration due to design at high-level or analytical performance models which provide realistic performance expectations, potential impediments to performance, and optimization guidelines.

In this paper we propose the combination of both, in order to construct a performance model for FPGAs which is able to visually condense all the helpful information for the designer.

Our proposed model extends the roofline model, by considering the resource consumption and the parameters used in the HLS tools, to maximize the performance and the resource utilization within the area of the FPGA.

The proposed model is applied to optimize the design exploration of a class of window-based image processing applications using two different HLS tools.

The results show the accuracy of the model as well as its flexibility to be combined with any HLS tool.

American Psychological Association (APA)

da Silva, Bruno& Braeken, An& D’Hollander, Erik H.& Touhafi, Abdellah. 2013. Performance Modeling for FPGAs : Extending the Roofline Model with High-Level Synthesis Tools. International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing،Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-10.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-471435

Modern Language Association (MLA)

da Silva, Bruno…[et al.]. Performance Modeling for FPGAs : Extending the Roofline Model with High-Level Synthesis Tools. International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing No. 2013 (2013), pp.1-10.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-471435

American Medical Association (AMA)

da Silva, Bruno& Braeken, An& D’Hollander, Erik H.& Touhafi, Abdellah. Performance Modeling for FPGAs : Extending the Roofline Model with High-Level Synthesis Tools. International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing. 2013. Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-10.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-471435

Data Type

Journal Articles

Language

English

Notes

Includes bibliographical references

Record ID

BIM-471435