Multi-accelerator system development with the ShrinkFit acceleration framework

Citation:

Michael Lyons, Gu Wei, and David Brooks. 10/2014. “Multi-accelerator system development with the ShrinkFit acceleration framework.” In International Conference on Computer Design. Seoul, Korea (South). Publisher's Version

Abstract:

This paper introduces the ShrinkFit accelerator framework, which simplifies the design of systems combining multiple accelerators. A single ShrinkFit system design can be deployed to FPGAs large and small, without time-consuming architectural parameter surveys. We describe four ShrinkFit accelerators implemented for an FPGA-based robotic bee brain prototype and demonstrate the flexibility of ShrinkFit with low performance overheads (under 10% on average) and low resource overheads (0-8% for accelerators and under 2% for hard logic blocks).
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