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Compiler-Driven FPGA Virtualization with SYNERGY.

This article presents and describes SYNERGY, a compiler/runtime solution that addresses one of the biggest challenges with Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs)—virtualization. The article presents the current state of virtualization in FPGAs discussing two key primitives—workload migration and mul...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 67; no. 8; pp. 134 - 143
Main Authors: Landgraf, Joshua, Yang, Tiffany, Lin, Will, Rossbach, Christopher J., Schkufza, Eric
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Aug2024
Subjects:
Field programmable gate arrays
Virtual machine systems
Software architecture
Data distribution
Workload of computer networks
Verilog (Computer hardware description language)
Computer operating systems
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:This article presents and describes SYNERGY, a compiler/runtime solution that addresses one of the biggest challenges with Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs)—virtualization. The article presents the current state of virtualization in FPGAs discussing two key primitives—workload migration and multitenancy—and how SYNERGY supports them. SYNERGY is described in detail in and is then evaluated using Intel DE10 system-on-a-chip and Amazon F1 cloud instances.