A Novel System Simulation Framework for HBM2 FPGA Platforms
Muñoz Hernandez HG, Iskandar V, Steiner L, Holzinger P, Jung M, Göhringer D, Hübner M, Wehn N, Reichenbach M (2025)
Publication Type: Conference contribution
Publication year: 2025
Journal
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Book Volume: 15227 LNCS
Pages Range: 72-84
Conference Proceedings Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Event location: Samos, GRC
ISBN: 9783031783791
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-78380-7_6
Abstract
Every year, the disparity between processing power and memory bandwidth continues to expand. This well-established trend has been recognized for several years. Recently, innovative concepts have emerged to address and narrow this growing gap. One notable example of such technology is High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), which is specifically designed to tackle this challenge. HBM has a much higher throughput thanks to their wider data buses, making it an innovative solution for this problem. Due to its configurability and timing requirements, HBM and Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) offer a great combination for prototyping, and the hardware that includes both is slowly gaining popularity and accessibility. In this work, we introduce an open-source simulator capable of accurately predicting and modeling HBM based FPGA systems in a fast-prototyping manner. This design not only simulates an HBM but also a memory controller and a memory interconnect, like the one used by AMD/Xilinx. To prove accuracy, this work shows side-by-side comparison between the real hardware and simulated benchmarks of different specific types of memory access patterns, where we measure an overall error of 9.91%. Finally, we compare the performance of some real-life applications where we report an average error of 2.72%.
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Involved external institutions
Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU)
Germany (DE)
Technische Universität Dresden
Germany (DE)
Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU)
Germany (DE)
Fraunhofer-Institut für Experimentelles Software Engineering (IESE)
Germany (DE)
Universität Rostock
Germany (DE)
Germany (DE)
Technische Universität Dresden
Germany (DE)
Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU)
Germany (DE)
Fraunhofer-Institut für Experimentelles Software Engineering (IESE)
Germany (DE)
Universität Rostock
Germany (DE)
How to cite
APA:
Muñoz Hernandez, H.G., Iskandar, V., Steiner, L., Holzinger, P., Jung, M., Göhringer, D.,... Reichenbach, M. (2025). A Novel System Simulation Framework for HBM2 FPGA Platforms. In Luigi Carro, Francesco Regazzoni, Christian Pilato (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (pp. 72-84). Samos, GRC: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
MLA:
Muñoz Hernandez, Hector Gerardo, et al. "A Novel System Simulation Framework for HBM2 FPGA Platforms." Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation, SAMOS 2024, Samos, GRC Ed. Luigi Carro, Francesco Regazzoni, Christian Pilato, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2025. 72-84.
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