Emulation of an ASIC power and temperature monitoring system (eTPMon) for FPGA prototyping

摘要

Hardware monitoring information can be used during system runtime to increase system lifetime and reliability. Examples of such monitoring information are power, temperature, and the aging status of processors. They provide the system with relevant information about the current hardware health. Such information is especially crucial in resource-aware computing concepts that introduce self-organizing behavior to deal with large MPSots (Multi-Processor Systems-on-Chip): For resource-aware computing, resources are allocated according to the current requirements. To find suitable resource-application pairs and achieve system targets like optimizing the utilization, current hardware status must be considered during resource allocation.