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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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P2l - Uma ferramenta de profiling a nível de instrução para o processador softcore LEON3 / P2L - A instruction level profiling tool for LEON3 softcore

Almeida Júnior, Carlos Roberto Pereira 20 May 2016 (has links)
A maioria dos sistemas embarcados hoje desenvolvidos utilizam complexos sistemas eletrônicos integrados em um único chip, os Systems-on-a-Chip (SoC). A análise do comportamento de uma aplicação em execução, ou seja, o profiling nesses sistemas não é uma tarefa trivial em virtude da complexidade dos SoCs e pela restrição de ferramentas de profiling adequadas. Neste contexto, este trabalho apresenta o P2L, uma ferramenta de profiling que se baseia em métricas de nível de instrução e função para o processador LEON3. O P2L fornece estatísticas detalhadas de uso do processador, memórias e barramento de programas em execução sem uso de instrumentação. A ferramenta é composta por um componente em hardware e drivers e aplicativos em software. Os resultados mostram que o P2L fornece medidas com erro inferior a 1% e overhead desprezível quando comparado ao tempo de execução nativa do programa e ao do profiler GNU gprof. / Most embedded systems developed today use complex electronic systems integrated into a single chip, the Systems-on-a-Chip (SoC). The analysis of the behavior of a running application or profiling in these systems is not a trivial task due to the complexity of the SoC and the restriction of appropriate profiling tools. In this context, this work presents P2L - a profiling tool that is based on instruction and function level metrics for the LEON3 processor. P2L provides detailed usage statistics of the processor, memories, and bus of running programs without the use of instrumentation. The tool consists of a component in hardware, drivers and applications software. The results show that P2L provides measures with an error less than 1% and negligible overhead compared to native runtime program and the GNU profiler gprof.
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Otimização de memória cache em tempo de execução para o processador embarcado LEON3 / Optimization of cache memory at runtime for embedded processor LEON3

Cuminato, Lucas Albers 28 April 2014 (has links)
O consumo de energia é uma das questões mais importantes em sistemas embarcados. Estudos demonstram que neste tipo de sistema a cache é responsável por consumir a maior parte da energia fornecida ao processador. Na maioria dos processadores embarcados, os parâmetros de configuração da cache são fixos e não permitem mudanças após sua fabricação/síntese. Entretanto, este não é o cenário ideal, pois a configuração da cache pode não ser adequada para uma determinada aplicação, tendo como consequência menor desempenho na execução e consumo excessivo de energia. Neste contexto, este trabalho apresenta uma implementação em hardware, utilizando computação reconfigurável, capaz de reconfigurar automática, dinâmica e transparentemente a quantidade de ways e por consequência o tamanho da cache de dados do processador embarcado LEON3, de forma que a cache se adeque à aplicação em tempo de execução. Com esta técnica, espera-se melhorar o desempenho das aplicações e reduzir o consumo de energia do sistema. Os resultados dos experimentos demonstram que é possível reduzir em até 5% o consumo de energia das aplicações com degradação de apenas 0.1% de desempenho / Energy consumption is one of the most important issues in embedded systems. Studies have shown that in this type of system the cache consumes most of the power supplied to the processor. In most embedded processors, the cache configuration parameters are fixed and do not allow changes after manufacture/synthesis. However, this is not the ideal scenario, since the configuration of the cache may not be suitable for a particular application, resulting in lower performance and excessive energy consumption. In this context, this project proposes a hardware implementation, using reconfigurable computing, able to reconfigure the parameters of the LEON3 processor\'s cache in run-time improving applications performance and reducing the power consumption of the system. The result of the experiment shows it is possible to reduce the processor\'s power consumption up to 5% with only 0.1% degradation in performance
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Otimização de memória cache em tempo de execução para o processador embarcado LEON3 / Optimization of cache memory at runtime for embedded processor LEON3

Lucas Albers Cuminato 28 April 2014 (has links)
O consumo de energia é uma das questões mais importantes em sistemas embarcados. Estudos demonstram que neste tipo de sistema a cache é responsável por consumir a maior parte da energia fornecida ao processador. Na maioria dos processadores embarcados, os parâmetros de configuração da cache são fixos e não permitem mudanças após sua fabricação/síntese. Entretanto, este não é o cenário ideal, pois a configuração da cache pode não ser adequada para uma determinada aplicação, tendo como consequência menor desempenho na execução e consumo excessivo de energia. Neste contexto, este trabalho apresenta uma implementação em hardware, utilizando computação reconfigurável, capaz de reconfigurar automática, dinâmica e transparentemente a quantidade de ways e por consequência o tamanho da cache de dados do processador embarcado LEON3, de forma que a cache se adeque à aplicação em tempo de execução. Com esta técnica, espera-se melhorar o desempenho das aplicações e reduzir o consumo de energia do sistema. Os resultados dos experimentos demonstram que é possível reduzir em até 5% o consumo de energia das aplicações com degradação de apenas 0.1% de desempenho / Energy consumption is one of the most important issues in embedded systems. Studies have shown that in this type of system the cache consumes most of the power supplied to the processor. In most embedded processors, the cache configuration parameters are fixed and do not allow changes after manufacture/synthesis. However, this is not the ideal scenario, since the configuration of the cache may not be suitable for a particular application, resulting in lower performance and excessive energy consumption. In this context, this project proposes a hardware implementation, using reconfigurable computing, able to reconfigure the parameters of the LEON3 processor\'s cache in run-time improving applications performance and reducing the power consumption of the system. The result of the experiment shows it is possible to reduce the processor\'s power consumption up to 5% with only 0.1% degradation in performance
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P2l - Uma ferramenta de profiling a nível de instrução para o processador softcore LEON3 / P2L - A instruction level profiling tool for LEON3 softcore

Carlos Roberto Pereira Almeida Júnior 20 May 2016 (has links)
A maioria dos sistemas embarcados hoje desenvolvidos utilizam complexos sistemas eletrônicos integrados em um único chip, os Systems-on-a-Chip (SoC). A análise do comportamento de uma aplicação em execução, ou seja, o profiling nesses sistemas não é uma tarefa trivial em virtude da complexidade dos SoCs e pela restrição de ferramentas de profiling adequadas. Neste contexto, este trabalho apresenta o P2L, uma ferramenta de profiling que se baseia em métricas de nível de instrução e função para o processador LEON3. O P2L fornece estatísticas detalhadas de uso do processador, memórias e barramento de programas em execução sem uso de instrumentação. A ferramenta é composta por um componente em hardware e drivers e aplicativos em software. Os resultados mostram que o P2L fornece medidas com erro inferior a 1% e overhead desprezível quando comparado ao tempo de execução nativa do programa e ao do profiler GNU gprof. / Most embedded systems developed today use complex electronic systems integrated into a single chip, the Systems-on-a-Chip (SoC). The analysis of the behavior of a running application or profiling in these systems is not a trivial task due to the complexity of the SoC and the restriction of appropriate profiling tools. In this context, this work presents P2L - a profiling tool that is based on instruction and function level metrics for the LEON3 processor. P2L provides detailed usage statistics of the processor, memories, and bus of running programs without the use of instrumentation. The tool consists of a component in hardware, drivers and applications software. The results show that P2L provides measures with an error less than 1% and negligible overhead compared to native runtime program and the GNU profiler gprof.
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DMA Controller for LEON3 SoC:s Using AMBA

Nilsson, Emelie January 2013 (has links)
A DMA Controller can offload a processor tremendously. A memory copy operation can be initiated by the processor and while the processor executes others tasks the memory copy can be fulfilled by the DMA Controller. An implementation of a DMA Controller for use in LEON3 SoC:s has been made during this master thesis. Problems that occurred while designing a controller of this type concerned AMBA buses, data transfers, alignment and interrupt handling. The DMA Controller supports AMBA and is attached to an AHB master and APB slave. The DMA Controller supports burst transfers to maximize data bandwidth. The source and destination address can be arbitrarily aligned. It supports multiple channels and it has interrupt generation on transfer completion along with interrupt masking. The implemented functionality works as intended.
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Analyse de robustesse de systèmes intégrés numériques / Robustness analysis of digital integrated systems

Chibani, Kais 10 November 2016 (has links)
Les circuits intégrés ne sont pas à l'abri d'interférences naturelles ou malveillantes qui peuvent provoquer des fautes transitoires conduisant à des erreurs (Soft errors) et potentiellement à un comportement erroné. Ceci doit être maîtrisé surtout dans le cas des systèmes critiques qui imposent des contraintes de sûreté et/ou de sécurité. Pour optimiser les stratégies de protection de tels systèmes, il est fondamental d'identifier les éléments les plus critiques. L'évaluation de la criticité de chaque bloc permet de limiter les protections aux blocs les plus sensibles. Cette thèse a pour objectif de proposer des approches permettant d'analyser, tôt dans le flot de conception, la robustesse d'un système numérique. Le critère clé utilisé est la durée de vie des données stockées dans les registres, pour une application donnée. Dans le cas des systèmes à base de microprocesseur, une approche analytique a été développée et validée autour d'un microprocesseur SparcV8 (LEON3). Celle-ci repose sur une nouvelle méthodologie permettant de raffiner les évaluations de criticité des registres. Ensuite, une approche complémentaire et plus générique a été mise en place pour calculer la criticité des différents points mémoires à partir d'une description synthétisable. L'outil mettant en œuvre cette approche a été éprouvé sur des systèmes significatifs tels que des accélérateurs matériels de chiffrement et un système matériel/logiciel basé sur le processeur LEON3. Des campagnes d'injection de fautes ont permis de valider les deux approches proposées dans cette thèse. En outre, ces approches se caractérisent par leur généralité, leur efficacité en termes de précision et de rapidité, ainsi que leur faible coût de mise en œuvre et leur capacité à ré-exploiter les environnements de validation fonctionnelle. / Integrated circuits are not immune to natural or malicious interferences that may cause transient faults which lead to errors (soft errors) and potentially to wrong behavior. This must be mastered particularly in the case of critical systems which impose safety and/or security constraints. To optimize protection strategies of such systems, it is essential to identify the most critical elements. The assessment of the criticality of each block allows limiting the protection to the most sensitive blocks. This thesis aims at proposing approaches in order to analyze, early in the design flow, the robustness of a digital system. The key criterion used is the lifetime of data stored in the registers for a given application. In the case of microprocessor-based systems, an analytical approach has been developed and validated on a SparcV8 microprocessor (LEON3). This approach is based on a new methodology to refine assessments of registers criticality. Then a more generic and complementary approach was implemented to compute the criticality of all flip-flops from a synthesizable description. The tool implementing this approach was tested on significant systems such as hardware crypto accelerators and a hardware/software system based on the LEON3 processor. Fault injection campaigns have validated the two approaches proposed in this thesis. In addition, these approaches are characterized by their generality, their efficiency in terms of accuracy and speed and a low-cost implementation. Another benefit is also their ability to re-use the functional verification environments.
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Measuring Soft Error Sensitivity of FPGA Soft Processor Designs Using Fault Injection

Harward, Nathan Arthur 01 March 2016 (has links)
Increasingly, soft processors are being considered for use within FPGA-based reliable computing systems. In an environment in which radiation is a concern, such as space, the logic and routing (configuration memory) of soft processors are sensitive to radiation effects, including single event upsets (SEUs). Thus, effective tools are needed to evaluate and estimate how sensitive the configuration memories of soft processors are in high-radiation environments. A high-speed FPGA fault injection system and methodology were created using the Xilinx Radiation Test Consortium's (XRTC's) Virtex-5 radiation test hardware to conduct exhaustive tests of the SEU sensitivity of a design within an FPGA's configuration memory. This tool was used to show that the sensitivity of the configuration memory of a soft processor depends on several variables, including its microarchitecture, its customizations and features, and the software instructions that are executed. The fault injection experiments described in this thesis were performed on five different soft processors, i.e., MicroBlaze, LEON3, Arm Cortex-M0 DesignStart, OpenRISC 1200, and PicoBlaze. Emphasis was placed on characterizing the sensitivity of the MicroBlaze soft processor and the dependence of the sensitivity on various modifications. Seven benchmarks were executed through the various experiments and used to determine the SEU sensitivity of the soft processor's configuration memory to the instructions that were executed. In this thesis, a wide variety of soft processor fault injection results are presented to show the differences in sensitivity between multiple soft processors and the software they run.

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