The MANGO Process for Designing and Programming Multi-Accelerator Multi-FPGA Systems

Abstract

[EN] This paper describes the approach followed in the European FETHPC MANGO project to design and program systems made of multiple FPGAs interconnected. The MANGO approach relies on the instantiation and management of multiple generic and custom-made accelerators which can be programmed to communicate each other via shared memory and through synchronization registers. The paper introduces the low level architecture including the multi-FPGA interconnect deployed, the communication protocol and the architectural template-based approach to simplify the design process.