conference paper yes Tobias Schumacher author Christian Plessl author 161530000-0001-5728-9982 Marco Platzner author 398 27 department 518 department 78 department Mapping applications that consist of a collection of cores to FPGA accelerators and optimizing their performance is a challenging task in high performance reconfigurable computing. We present IMORC, an architectural template and highly versatile on-chip interconnect. IMORC links provide asynchronous FIFOs and bitwidth conversion which allows for flexibly composing accelerators from cores running at full speed within their own clock domains, thus facilitating the re-use of cores and portability. Further, IMORC inserts performance counters for monitoring runtime data. In this paper, we first introduce the IMORC architectural template and the on-chip interconnect, and then demonstrate IMORC on the example of accelerating the k-th nearest neighbor thinning problem on an XD1000 reconfigurable computing system. Using IMORC's monitoring infrastructure, we gain insights into the data-dependent behavior of the application which, in turn, allow for optimizing the accelerator. IEEE Computer Society2009 eng IMORCinterconnectperformance 978-1-4244-4450-210.1109/FCCM.2009.25 275-278 Schumacher, T., Plessl, C., &#38; Platzner, M. (2009). IMORC: Application Mapping, Monitoring and Optimization for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing. <i>Proc. Int. Symp. on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM)</i>, 275–278. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/FCCM.2009.25">https://doi.org/10.1109/FCCM.2009.25</a> Schumacher, Tobias, et al. “IMORC: Application Mapping, Monitoring and Optimization for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing.” <i>Proc. Int. Symp. on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM)</i>, IEEE Computer Society, 2009, pp. 275–78, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/FCCM.2009.25">10.1109/FCCM.2009.25</a>. @inproceedings{Schumacher_Plessl_Platzner_2009, title={IMORC: Application Mapping, Monitoring and Optimization for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/FCCM.2009.25">10.1109/FCCM.2009.25</a>}, booktitle={Proc. Int. Symp. on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM)}, publisher={IEEE Computer Society}, author={Schumacher, Tobias and Plessl, Christian and Platzner, Marco}, year={2009}, pages={275–278} } T. Schumacher, C. Plessl, M. Platzner, in: Proc. Int. Symp. on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), IEEE Computer Society, 2009, pp. 275–278. T. Schumacher, C. Plessl, and M. Platzner, “IMORC: Application Mapping, Monitoring and Optimization for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing,” in <i>Proc. Int. Symp. on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM)</i>, 2009, pp. 275–278, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/FCCM.2009.25">10.1109/FCCM.2009.25</a>. Schumacher, Tobias, Christian Plessl, and Marco Platzner. “IMORC: Application Mapping, Monitoring and Optimization for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing.” In <i>Proc. Int. Symp. on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM)</i>, 275–78. IEEE Computer Society, 2009. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/FCCM.2009.25">https://doi.org/10.1109/FCCM.2009.25</a>. Schumacher T, Plessl C, Platzner M. IMORC: Application Mapping, Monitoring and Optimization for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing. In: <i>Proc. Int. Symp. on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM)</i>. IEEE Computer Society; 2009:275-278. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/FCCM.2009.25">10.1109/FCCM.2009.25</a> 23502018-04-16T15:05:52Z2023-09-26T13:51:44Z