FPGA Prototyping and Emulation of Computer Systems

This research explores the application of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) and High-level Hardware Synthesis technologies in computer systems prototyping and emulation. This research has been supported in funding and/or equipment by NSF, FCRP/C2S2, SUN, and Xilinx. Please see the ProtoFlex project page for complete and up-to-date details. We have made the ProtoFlex FPGA-accelerated simulator opensource. Please also visit the related SimFlex project on multiprocessor simulation (in software) and the multi-university RAMP project.

• Students
  • Eric Chung
  • Michael Papamichael
  • Eriko Nurvitadhi
• ProtoFlex Opensource (website)
• OpenSPARC T1: Architectural Transplant (Transplants state from architectural simulators into the OpenSPARC RTL for continued execution)
• Publications
  • FPGA-Accelerated Simulation of Computer Systems. H. Angepat, D. Chiou, E. S. Chung, and J. C. Hoe. Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture #29, Morgan &Claypool, 2014. (pdf)
  • Fast Scalable FPGA-Based Network-on-Chip Simulation Models. M. K. Papamichael. Formal Methods and Models for Codesign (MEMOCODE), July 2011. (pdf)
  • FIST: A Fast, Lightweight, FPGA-Friendly Packet Latency Estimator for NoC Modeling in Full-System Simulations. M.Papamichael, J. C. Hoe and O. Mutlu. International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip (NOCS), May 2011. (pdf)
  • High-level Design and Validation of the BlueSPARC Multithreaded Processor. E. S. Chung and J. C. Hoe. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Volume 29, Issue 10, pp 1459-1470, October 2010. (ieee) (This is the full journal version of the MEMOCODE 2009 paper.)
  • Implementing a High-performance Multithreaded Microprocessor: A Case Study in High-level Design and Validation. E. S. Chung, J. C. Hoe. Formal Methods and Models for Codesign (MEMOCODE), July 2009. (pdf)
  • ProtoFlex: Towards Scalable, Full-System Multiprocessor Simulations Using FPGAs. E. S. Chung, M. K. Papamichael, E. Nurvitadhi, J. C. Hoe, B. Falsafi and K. Mai. ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS), Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2009. (acm) (This is the full journal version of the FPGA 2008 paper.)
  • A Complexity-Effective Architecture for Accelerating Full-System Multiprocessor Simulations Using FPGAs. E. S. Chung, E. Nurvitadhi, J. C. Hoe, B. Falsafi and K. Mai. International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), February 2008. (pdf)
  • RAMP: A Research Accelerator for Multiple Processors. J. Wawrzynek, D. A. Patterson, M. Oskin, S.-L. Lu, C. Kozyrakis, J. C. Hoe, D. Chiou, K. Asanovic. IEEE Micro, Volume 27, Number 2 , March/April 2007. (ieee)
  • RAMP: Research Accelerator for Multiple Processors - A Community Vision for a Shared Experimental Parallel HW/SW Platform. Arvind, K. Asanovic, D. Chiou, J. C. Hoe, C. Kozyrakis, S.-L. Lu, M. Oskin, D. Patterson, J. Rabaey, J. Wawrzynek. September 2005. (pdf) (note: this is the tech report version of the original 2005 NSF proposal on RAMP.)
  • In-System FPGA Prototyping of an Itanium Microarchitecture. R. Wunderlich and J. C. Hoe. International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), October 2004. (pdf)
  • High-Level Modeling and FPGA Prototyping of Microprocessors. J. Ray and J. C. Hoe. International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), February 2003. (pdf)