NDLI: Custom FPGA-based soft-processors for sparse graph acceleration

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Kapre, N.
Copyright Year	2015
Description	Author affiliation: Sch. of Comput. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore (Kapre, N.)
Abstract	FPGA-based soft processors customized for operations on sparse graphs can deliver significant performance improvements over conventional organizations (ARMv7 CPUs) for bulk synchronous sparse graph algorithms. We develop a stripped-down soft processor ISA to implement specific repetitive operations on graph nodes and edges that are commonly observed in sparse graph computations. In the processing core, we provide hardware support for rapidly fetching and processing state of local graph nodes and edges through spatial address generators and zero-overhead loop iterators. We interconnect a 2D array of these lightweight processors with a packet-switched network-on-chip to enable fine-grained operand routing along the graph edges and provide custom send/receive instructions in the soft processor. We develop the processor RTL using Vivado High-Level Synthesis and also provide an assembler and compilation flow to configure the processor instruction and data memories. We outperform a Microblaze (100MHz on Zedboard) and an NIOS-II/f (100MHz on DE2-115) by 6× (single processor design) as well as the ARMv7 dual-core CPU on the Zynq SoCs by as much as 10× on the Xilinx ZC706 board (100 processor design) across a range of matrix datasets.
Starting Page	9
Ending Page	16
File Size	600206
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISSN	2160052X
e-ISBN	9781479919253
DOI	10.1109/ASAP.2015.7245698
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-07-27
Publisher Place	Canada
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Program processors Random access memory Sparse matrices Field programmable gate arrays Hardware Registers Algorithm design and analysis
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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