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| Download and extract the following archive: | Download and extract the following archive: | ||
| - | [[http://fortress-toolbox.unice.fr/Apps.tar.gz|DOWNLOAD LINK]] | + | [[http://five-sigma.com/tmp/standalone_versions/Apps.tar.gz|DOWNLOAD LINK]] |
| Open FoRTReSS. In the main menu, select File -> Open -> Project, browse for example to ''Apps/TRT_XC6VLX240T_MB/1-LANE_LPR/TRT_XC6VLX240T_MB/'' and select ''fortress.prj''. Everything is already set up to process a working simulation. However you can explore different parameters from menu FoRTReSS -> Preferences such as: | Open FoRTReSS. In the main menu, select File -> Open -> Project, browse for example to ''Apps/TRT_XC6VLX240T_MB/1-LANE_LPR/TRT_XC6VLX240T_MB/'' and select ''fortress.prj''. Everything is already set up to process a working simulation. However you can explore different parameters from menu FoRTReSS -> Preferences such as: | ||
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| * Number of cores (Processor Parameters) | * Number of cores (Processor Parameters) | ||
| * Number of instanciated applications (Application Parameters) | * Number of instanciated applications (Application Parameters) | ||
| - | * Hardware task implementations (Task Report/Netlist) | + | * Hardware task implementations (Task Report / Netlist) |
| To run simulation: | To run simulation: | ||
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| Previous exploration outputs various other DPR accelerated solutions for 2 MicroBlaze cores and a number of Reconfigurable Regions increasing from 1 to 11. | Previous exploration outputs various other DPR accelerated solutions for 2 MicroBlaze cores and a number of Reconfigurable Regions increasing from 1 to 11. | ||
| - | You may want to compare with a full software solution based exclusively on 4 MicroBlaze cores: | + | You may want to compare with a full software solution (based on 4 MicroBlaze cores): |
| * Open and simulate project ''Apps/TRT_XC6VLX240T_MB/1-LANE_LPR/TRT_XC6VLX240T_MB_SW/'' | * Open and simulate project ''Apps/TRT_XC6VLX240T_MB/1-LANE_LPR/TRT_XC6VLX240T_MB_SW/'' | ||
| - | * In the main menu select File -> Open New Tab and select ''Apps/TRT_XC6VLX240T_MB/1-LANE_LPR/TRT_XC6VLX240T_MB_SW/Config Seq/Solutions/solution_0_RZ_2.vcd''. The corresponding execution time should be ''48,008s'' and instant energy ''52,219J''. The corresponding improvement factor in terms of energy delay product is 19: ''(52,219*48,008)/(12,307*10,713)''. | + | * In the main menu select File -> Open New Tab and select ''Apps/TRT_XC6VLX240T_MB/1-LANE_LPR/TRT_XC6VLX240T_MB_SW/Config Seq/Solutions/solution_0_RZ_2.vcd''. The corresponding execution time should be ''48,008s'' and instant energy ''52,219J''. The corresponding improvement factor in terms of energy delay product is ''(52,219*48,008)/(12,307*10,713) = 19''. |
| You can also compare against static hardware solutions (i.e. 2 cores + reconfigurable accelerators without DPR) with project ''Apps/TRT_XC6VLX240T_MB/1-LANE_LPR/TRT_XC6VLX240T_MB_STATIC/'' | You can also compare against static hardware solutions (i.e. 2 cores + reconfigurable accelerators without DPR) with project ''Apps/TRT_XC6VLX240T_MB/1-LANE_LPR/TRT_XC6VLX240T_MB_STATIC/'' | ||
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| Each time you want to run another simulation with a given FoRTReSS project, first go to FoRTReSS -> Preferences -> Clean All Generated Files -> Current config to erase previous simulation files (simulations can generate several giga bytes of result data). | Each time you want to run another simulation with a given FoRTReSS project, first go to FoRTReSS -> Preferences -> Clean All Generated Files -> Current config to erase previous simulation files (simulations can generate several giga bytes of result data). | ||
| - | Details underlying the methodology can be found in the [[Publications]] section, in particular the License Plate Recognition (LPR) application example and corresponding analysis of results are described in [1]. | + | Details underlying the methodology can be found in the [[Publications]] section, in particular the License Plate Recognition (LPR) application example and corresponding analysis of results are discussed in [1]. |
