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When designing modern embedded computing systems, most software programmers choose to use multicore processors, possibly in combination with general-purpose graphics processing units (GPGPUs) and/or hardware accelerators. They also often use an embedded Linux O/S and run multi-application workloads that may even be multi-threaded. Modern FPGAs are large enough to combine multicore hard/soft processors with multiple hardware accelerators as custom compute units, enabling entire embedded compute systems to be implemented on a single FPGA. Furthermore, the large FPGA vendors also support embedded Linux kernels for both their soft and embedded processors. When combined with high-level synthesis to generate hardware accelerators using a C-to-gates flows, the necessary primitives for a framework that can enable software designers to use FPGAs as their custom compute platform now exist. However, in order to ensure that computing resources are integrated and shared effectively, software developers need to be able to monitor and debug the runtime performance of the applications in their workload. This paper describes ABACUS, a performance-monitoring framework that can be used to debug the e

Author

Shannon, Lesley; Matthews, Eric; Doyle, Nicholas; Fedorova, Alexandra

Published

2015

Language

EN