Operating System for Symmetric Multiprocessors on FPGA

Author

Huerta, Pablo ; Castillo, Javier ; Sanchez, Cesar ; Martinez, Jose I.

Author_Institution

Rey Juan Carlos Univ., Madrid

fYear

2008

fDate

3-5 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

157

Lastpage

162

Abstract

Soft-core based multiprocessor systems are getting very popular in the FPGA design world. There are many computer architectures that has been used for building multiprocessor systems on FPGAs, including SMP (symmetric multiprocessor). One of the main drawback of this SMP systems is the unavailability of operating systems that allow programming multi-threaded applications that make good use of the multiple processors of the system. This paper details an operating system designed to be used with SMP systems based on the MicroBlaze soft-core processor. The OS is tested with three different applications on an SMP system which implements all the software and hardware required for the OS to work on different SMP systems.

Keywords

field programmable gate arrays; logic design; microprocessor chips; multi-threading; operating systems (computers); FPGA design; MicroBlaze soft-core processor; SMP systems; computer architecture; multithreaded application programming; operating systems; soft-core based multiprocessor systems; symmetric multiprocessor; Application software; Buildings; Computer architecture; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Libraries; Multiprocessing systems; Operating systems; Processor scheduling; Yarn; FPGA; Operating System; SMP; softcore processor;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs, 2008. ReConFig '08. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cancun

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3748-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3474-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ReConFig.2008.43

Filename

4731787