Implementation of Power-Efficient Control Unit on Ultra-scale FPGA for Green Communication

Abstract

Whole world is suffering from the problem of the energy crisis. This is happening because of the enormous growth of population and industries across the globe. Therefore the whole world is looking to adopt the concepts of green communication technologies and power/energy efficient devices. This work is just towards these technologies. In this work, a power-efficient Control Unit (CU) is designed and implemented on Kintex-7 Ultrascale FPGA. The simulation and power analysis of the control unit is done on VIVADO HLx Design Suite. The power analysis of control unit is observed for different frequency values and it is observed that as the frequency increases the total power consumption also increases. Hence the control unit is more suitable to operate at low frequency values in order to minimize the power consumption. Also, there is a 36% saving in total power consumption when we scale down the device operating frequency of the control unit from 5 GHz to 100 MHz.

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“…Also, the TP of the proposed model is reduced by 77.42% from [18]. Similarly, the TP of this proposed model is reduced by 21.29% and 17.93% from [20,40], respectively, as shown in Figure 16. This CU circuit can be studied for other ultrascale and ultrascale plus FPGA devices in the future.…”

“…In this section, a comparison of TP consumption has been made with the existing works of CU on FPGA and with this work. In [18], with Spartan 6 FPPGA, the TP for CU is found to be 2.636 W, while in [20,40], the TP consumption for CU was 0.756 W and 0.725 W, respectively. In this work, CU is designed with Zynq SoC FPGA for incorporating with [20,40], respectively.…”

“…In [18], with Spartan 6 FPPGA, the TP for CU is found to be 2.636 W, while in [20,40], the TP consumption for CU was 0.756 W and 0.725 W, respectively. In this work, CU is designed with Zynq SoC FPGA for incorporating with [20,40], respectively. The TP consumption of CU with existing models and the proposed model is shown in Table 8 and Figure 16, respectively.…”

“…The RISC processor (ARM) is used in combination with FPGA to perform parallel computing tasks [19]. A power-efficient CU on Virtex and the Spartan family FPGA was introduced to support the concepts of Green Communication researchers [20].…”

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“…These devices work similarly to the other microcontrollers but have one distinguished property which makes FPGA more convenient than the other microcontrollers. The major and the most important advantage of using FPGAs is these [5] can be reprogrammed after its manufacturing. The feature of being reprogrammed makes FPGAs handier and convenient to be used than the other microcontrollers [6,7].…”