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About this paper
Alexander Kropotov, Miquel Moreto, Behzad Salami
EMiX provides an open-source, multi-FPGA emulation framework designed for many-core systems, addressing single-FPGA capacity limitations through a dual-channel inter-FPGA communication strategy. The platform successfully emulated a 64-core system across eight FPGAs, enabling the boot-up and execution of a full Linux operating system.
Key insights
- Leveraging heterogeneous inter-FPGA interconnects through a dual-channel design can effectively balance communication performance for localized traffic with scalability for global connectivity.
- Partitioning a complex many-core design along NoC tile boundaries allows flexible distribution and reconfigurability across multiple FPGAs.
- Providing an open-source framework built on commodity hardware offers an accessible alternative to proprietary solutions, fostering broader academic research and development in large-scale system emulation.
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