• DocumentCode
    2731146
  • Title

    Scalable host controller for modular hardware accelerator

  • Author

    Yee, Chen Kah ; bin Sidek, Othman ; Hak, Teh Chee ; Li, Leow Weng

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. Sains Malaysia, Nibong Tebal, Malaysia
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    25-28 Sept. 2011
  • Firstpage
    445
  • Lastpage
    448
  • Abstract
    This paper presents a scalable host controller for modular hardware accelerator. Designing a hardware method of scalable host controller can handle multiple processing units at the same time. Currently in System on Chip (SoC) design, multiple processing units accessing the memory to request a task lead to inefficient communications due to bus congestion. In addition, designing a scalable host controller helps the transactions schedule consistently between different processing units in the modular hardware accelerator. In this paper, the hardware approach of scalable host controller design is expected to support up to seven different processing units.
  • Keywords
    integrated circuit design; system-on-chip; bus congestion; modular hardware accelerator; scalable host controller; system on chip design; transaction scheduling; Engines; Generators; Graphics; Hardware; Process control; System software; Acknowledgement (ACK); Command Register (CMDREG); Hardware Accelerator (HA); Message Signaled Interrupt (MSI); Transfer Descriptor (TD); Transfer Request Block (TRB); Transfer Ring Address (TRADDR); Workload Generator (WG);
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Industrial Electronics and Applications (ISIEA), 2011 IEEE Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Langkawi
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1418-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISIEA.2011.6108749
  • Filename
    6108749