{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/a-prototype-based-framework-to-design","title":"A Prototype-Based Framework to Design Scalable Heterogeneous SoCs with Fine-Grained DFS","arxiv_id":"2411.15574","date":"2024-11-23","proceeding":null,"authors":["Gabriele Montanaro","Andrea Galimberti","Davide Zoni"],"abstract":"Frameworks for the agile development of modern system-on-chips are crucial to dealing with the complexity of designing such architectures. The open-source Vespa framework for designing large, FPGA-based, multi-core heterogeneous system-on-chips enables a faster and more flexible design space exploration of such architectures and their run-time optimization. Vespa, built on ESP, introduces the capabilities to instantiate multiple replicas of the same accelerator in a single network-on-chip node and to partition the system-on-chips into frequency islands with independent dynamic frequency scaling actuators, as well as a dedicated run-time monitoring infrastructure. Experiments on 4-by-4 tile-based system-on-chips demonstrate the possibility of effectively exploring a multitude of solutions that differ in the replication of accelerators, the clock frequencies of the frequency islands, and the tiles' placement, as well as monitoring a variety of statistics related to the traffic on the interconnect and the accelerators' performance at run time.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.15574v2","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.15574v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"a-prototype-based-framework-to-design","repo_url":"https://github.com/hardware-fab/vespa","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}