Research Article

Multi-Softcore Architecture on FPGA

Table 1

Configurable parameters.

ParametersTimeValuesDefault value

Number of PEsDesign, > 0

Size of PE local memoryDesignLimited by the FPGA surface 5 KB

Neighborhood network’s topologyDesign and runtimeMesh, Torus, and XnetTorus

Global router communication modeRuntimePE-PE,
PE-Controller,
PE-I/O Peripheral, and
Controller-I/O Peripheral
PE-Controller