Energy Efficiency Exploration on the ZYNQ Ultrascale+

Abstract

In the context of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), Single Board Computers (SBCs) could provide adaptivity for various present and future applications, and permit scalability through clusters of SBCs while possibly save energy consumption. In this paper, we explore energy efficiency of a Zynq Ultrascale+ based board developed in the context of the AXIOM project. While an entire framework based on the Zynq Ultrascale+ is still in progress, the board is already available and capable of running a full Linux OS and it is possible to measure energy consumption. We demonstrate a possible architecture based on DataFlow-Threads (DF-Threads), a novel execution model, on the Zynq Ultrascale+ platform, in order to assess the energy efficiency of DF-Threads. We measured the power consumption, while the RAW and RDMA message types were transceived through board-to-board interconnects.