多核微处理器加速平台RAMP研究  

Study on Research Accelerator for Multiple Processors(RAMP)

作　　者：陈文喆[1] 

机构地区：[1]湖南农业大学信息科学技术学院,长沙410128

出　　处：《湖南工程学院学报（自然科学版）》2011年第2期60-63,共4页Journal of Hunan Institute of Engineering(Natural Science Edition)

摘　　要：微处理器向多核和众核方向的发展给计算机体系结构带来了新挑战.针对这一挑战,多核处理器加速平台RAMP应运而生,通过采用多FPGA模拟,用FPGA以硬件的速度级来模拟高度并行体系结构,给并行和多核体系结构的研究带来了新的途径和手段.分析了RAMP平台的体系结构和设计框架,简介了当前主要的RAMP研究项目,并从RAMP架构、FPGA硬件平台、可重用模块库和模拟器原型等四个方面对RAMP的现有研究工作进行总结分析,最后对RAMP研究的发展趋势展开探讨.The development trend of microprocessor is the multi-core and many-core,which bring new challenges to the computer architecture.The Research Accelerator for Multiple Processors（RAMP） has been proposed to deal with these challenges.RAMP simulates the highly parallel architecture with the speed of FPGA-level hardware by using multi-FPGA simulation.It provides new approach for the research on parallel and multi-core architecture.In this paper,the architecture and design framework of RAMP are analyzed,and the main projects on RAMP are introduced briefly.The research work on RAMP is summarized and analyzed from the aspects of RAMP architecture,FPGA hardware platform,re-usable module library and simulator prototype.Finally,the development trend of the research on RAMP is discussed.

关 键 词：多核 RAMP 模块库 模拟器 

分 类 号：TU997[建筑科学—市政工程]