3 research outputs found
The review of heterogeneous design frameworks/Platforms for digital systems embedded in FPGAs and SoCs
Systems-on-a-chip integrate specialized modules to provide well-defined functionality. In order to guarantee its efficiency, designersare careful to choose high-level electronic components. In particular,FPGAs (field-programmable gate array) have demonstrated theirability to meet the requirements of emerging technology. However,traditional design methods cannot keep up with the speed andefficiency imposed by the embedded systems industry, so severalframeworks have been developed to simplify the design process of anelectronic system, from its modeling to its physical implementation.This paper illustrates some of them and presents a comparative studybetween them. Indeed, we have selected design methods of SoC(ESP4ML and HLS4ML, OpenESP, LiteX, RubyRTL, PyMTL,SysPy, PyRTL, DSSoC) and NoC networks on OCN chip (PyOCN)and in general on FPGA (PRGA, OpenFPGA, AnyHLS, PYNQ, andPyLog).The objective of this article is to analyze each tool at several levelsand to discuss the benefit of each in the scientific community. Wewill analyze several aspects constituting the architecture and thestructure of the platforms to make a comparative study of thehardware and software design flows of digital systems.
Hardware Acceleration of Most Apparent Distortion Image Quality Assessment Algorithm on FPGA Using OpenCL
abstract: The information era has brought about many technological advancements in the past
few decades, and that has led to an exponential increase in the creation of digital images and
videos. Constantly, all digital images go through some image processing algorithm for
various reasons like compression, transmission, storage, etc. There is data loss during this
process which leaves us with a degraded image. Hence, to ensure minimal degradation of
images, the requirement for quality assessment has become mandatory. Image Quality
Assessment (IQA) has been researched and developed over the last several decades to
predict the quality score in a manner that agrees with human judgments of quality. Modern
image quality assessment (IQA) algorithms are quite effective at prediction accuracy, and
their development has not focused on improving computational performance. The existing
serial implementation requires a relatively large run-time on the order of seconds for a single
frame. Hardware acceleration using Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) provides
reconfigurable computing fabric that can be tailored for a broad range of applications.
Usually, programming FPGAs has required expertise in hardware descriptive languages
(HDLs) or high-level synthesis (HLS) tool. OpenCL is an open standard for cross-platform,
parallel programming of heterogeneous systems along with Altera OpenCL SDK, enabling
developers to use FPGA's potential without extensive hardware knowledge. Hence, this
thesis focuses on accelerating the computationally intensive part of the most apparent
distortion (MAD) algorithm on FPGA using OpenCL. The results are compared with CPU
implementation to evaluate performance and efficiency gains.Dissertation/ThesisMasters Thesis Electrical Engineering 201
OpenCL-based hardware-software co-design methodology for image processing implementation on heterogeneous FPGA platform
Recently, the OpenCL hardware-software co-design methodology has gained traction in realizing effective parallel architecture designs in heterogeneous FPGA platforms. In fact, the portability of OpenCL on hardware ready platforms such as GPU or multicore CPU enables ease of design verification. This is true especially for parallel algorithms before implementing them using cumbersome HDL-based RTL design. In this paper we employed OpenCL programming platform based on Altera SDK for OpenCL (AOCL) to implement a Sobel filter algorithm as an image processing test case on a Cyclone V FPGA board. Using the portability of this platform, the performance of the kernel code is benchmarked against that of the GPU and multicore CPU implementations for different image and kernel sizes. Different optimization strategies are also applied for each platform. We found that increasing the Sobel filter kernel size from 3×3 to 5×5 results in only 11.3% increase in computation time for FPGA, while the effect was much more significant where the execution time was as high as 23.6% and 85.7% for CPU and GPU, respectively