A platform for dynamic thermal management of FPGA-based soft-core processors via Dynamic Frequency Scaling

Thermal management is one of the main challenges in designing embedded systems. One of the common approaches for implementing embedded systems is using FPGAs and their soft-processors. The current work focuses on providing a platform for dynamic thermal management (DTM) of an FPGA-based processor system using Dynamic Frequency Scaling (DFS). At first, a platform with a soft-core processor is established that is able to control the system clock frequency using thermal feedback of the FPGA at run-time. Then, several thermal management algorithms are proposed to explore the merit of this design.