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StreamIF - High Performance Memory Interface for Reconfigurable Operating Systems on Xilinx ZedBoard Platform

by Taner Guven, Suhap Sahin
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International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 168 - Number 6
Year of Publication: 2017
Authors: Taner Guven, Suhap Sahin
10.5120/ijca2017914354

Taner Guven, Suhap Sahin . StreamIF - High Performance Memory Interface for Reconfigurable Operating Systems on Xilinx ZedBoard Platform. International Journal of Computer Applications. 168, 6 ( Jun 2017), 1-5. DOI=10.5120/ijca2017914354

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author = { Taner Guven, Suhap Sahin },
title = { StreamIF - High Performance Memory Interface for Reconfigurable Operating Systems on Xilinx ZedBoard Platform },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { Jun 2017 },
volume = { 168 },
number = { 6 },
month = { Jun },
year = { 2017 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 1-5 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume168/number6/27876-2017914354/ },
doi = { 10.5120/ijca2017914354 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
}
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%A Suhap Sahin
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Abstract

Today, FPGA-based Hardware/Software Co-design applications are frequently used in many areas such as high performance computing, video processing, automation, automotive, and communications. Since there is not any standardized operating system used for FPGA applications, it is usually required to start developing from scratch for both software and hardware. Although this need is met partly by the Reconfigurable Operating System studies, it has not been reached yet to the level of performance of bare-metal applications. In this article, the design and implementation of the memory interface, which was developed for high performance data transfer between software and hardware in reconfigurable operating systems, was described. The memory interface (StreamIF), which was developed as open source, was verified with the ReconOS operating system in "Xilinx Zedboard Zynq-7000 SoC Development Board".

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Computer Science
Information Sciences

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FPGA Memory Interface Zynq-7000 AXI Stream AXI DMA

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