Presentation 2022-11-29
FPGA-based Accelerators System with Autonomous DMA Engine
Tomoya Yokono, Yoshiro Yamabe, Kenji Tanaka, Yuki Arikawa, Teruaki Ishizaki,
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Abstract(in English) Recently, computing systems have comprised specialized computing components such as FPGAs, GPUs, and various ASIC accelerators to enhance efficiency and performance. We proposed a queue structure mechanism to communicate between CPUs-FPGAs and offload tasks onto FPGAs asynchronously. This paper presents an FPGA system with an autonomous DMA engine to enhance efficiency and performance. We build the system installed in eight FPGAs in which a customized DMA engine is implemented and evaluate communication performance including Software Stack for a single FPGA and the communication latency of an FPGA chain. In a single FPGA, oursystem achieves DMA read bandwidth of up to 68.5% and DMA write bandwidth of up to 62.2% for PCIe Gen3 x16 theoretical performance. An FPGA chain of up to 8 FPGAs in 4MB data size has latency of 3.7 milliseconds, which under half that when using the existing DMA method(7.6 milliseconds).
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Paper # VLD2022-28,ICD2022-45,DC2022-44,RECONF2022-51
Date of Issue 2022-11-21 (VLD, ICD, DC, RECONF)

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Committee VLD / DC / RECONF / ICD / IPSJ-SLDM
Conference Date 2022/11/28(3days)
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Place (in English) Kanazawa Bunka Hall
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Topics (in English) Design Gaia 2022 -New Field of VLSI Design-
Chair Minako Ikeda(NTT) / Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya(Osaka Univ.) / Kentaro Sano(RIKEN) / Masafumi Takahashi(Kioxia) / Hiroyuki Ochi(Ritsumeikan Univ.)
Vice Chair Shigetoshi Nakatake(Univ. of Kitakyushu) / Toshinori Hosokawa(Nihon Univ.) / Yoshiki Yamaguchi(Tsukuba Univ.) / Tomonori Izumi(Ritsumeikan Univ.) / Makoto Ikeda(Univ. of Tokyo)
Secretary Shigetoshi Nakatake(NBS) / Toshinori Hosokawa(Hirosaki Univ.) / Yoshiki Yamaguchi(Nihon Univ.) / Tomonori Izumi(Chiba Univ.) / Makoto Ikeda(NEC) / (Toyohashi Univ. of Tech.)
Assistant Takuma Nishimoto(Hitachi) / / Yukitaka Takemura(INTEL) / Yasunori Osana(Ryukyu Univ.) / Yoshiaki Yoshihara(KIOXIA) / Jun Shiomi(Osaka Univ.) / Takeshi Kuboki(Sony Semiconductor Solutions)

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Registration To Technical Committee on VLSI Design Technologies / Technical Committee on Dependable Computing / Technical Committee on Reconfigurable Systems / Technical Committee on Integrated Circuits and Devices / Special Interest Group on System and LSI Design Methodology
Language JPN
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Title (in English) FPGA-based Accelerators System with Autonomous DMA Engine
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1st Author's Name Tomoya Yokono
1st Author's Affiliation Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation(NTT)
2nd Author's Name Yoshiro Yamabe
2nd Author's Affiliation Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation(NTT)
3rd Author's Name Kenji Tanaka
3rd Author's Affiliation Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation(NTT)
4th Author's Name Yuki Arikawa
4th Author's Affiliation Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation(NTT)
5th Author's Name Teruaki Ishizaki
5th Author's Affiliation Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation(NTT)
Date 2022-11-29
Paper # VLD2022-28,ICD2022-45,DC2022-44,RECONF2022-51
Volume (vol) vol.122
Number (no) VLD-283,ICD-284,DC-285,RECONF-286
Page pp.pp.55-60(VLD), pp.55-60(ICD), pp.55-60(DC), pp.55-60(RECONF),
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Date of Issue 2022-11-21 (VLD, ICD, DC, RECONF)