Programmable systems-on-chip for information processing

Abstract

Information processing is a very broad area in which many problems are computationally intensive and thus, they require parallelization and acceleration based on new technologies. The Xilinx Zynq-7000 all programmable system-on-chip can be seen as a very adequate platform permitting application-specific software and problem-targeted hardware to be coupled on a single configurable microchip. The tutorial is dedicated to multi-level software/hardware co-design techniques and system architectures that combine general-purpose computers, multi-core application-specific processing, and accelerators in reconfigurable hardware with emphasis on broad parallelism. Four projects from the scope of data processing, application informatics, parallel algorithms (mapped to hardware), and combinatorial search are briefly characterized and will be demonstrated in fully implemented and ready to test projects that include software and reconfigurable hardware linked with on-chip high-performance interfaces. Particular design examples, potential practical applications, experiments and comparisons will be demonstrated.