TY - GEN
T1 - GreenFPGA
T2 - 61st ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, DAC 2024
AU - Sudarshan, Chetan Choppali
AU - Arora, Aman
AU - Chhabria, Vidya A.
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PY - 2024/11/7
Y1 - 2024/11/7
N2 - Growing global concerns about climate change highlight the need for environmentally sustainable computing. The ecological impact of computing, including operational and embodied, is crucial. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) stand out as promising sustainable computing platforms due to their reconfigurability across various applications. This paper introduces GreenFPGA, a tool estimating the total carbon footprint (CFP) of FPGAs over their lifespan, considering design, manufacturing, reconfigurability, operation, disposal, and recycling. Using GreenFPGA, the paper evaluates scenarios where the ecological benefits of FPGA reconfigurability outweigh operational and embodied carbon costs, positioning FPGAs as an environmentally sustainable choice for hardware acceleration compared to Application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). Experimental results show that FPGAs have lower CFP than ASICs for multiple low-volume applications or short application lifespans.
AB - Growing global concerns about climate change highlight the need for environmentally sustainable computing. The ecological impact of computing, including operational and embodied, is crucial. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) stand out as promising sustainable computing platforms due to their reconfigurability across various applications. This paper introduces GreenFPGA, a tool estimating the total carbon footprint (CFP) of FPGAs over their lifespan, considering design, manufacturing, reconfigurability, operation, disposal, and recycling. Using GreenFPGA, the paper evaluates scenarios where the ecological benefits of FPGA reconfigurability outweigh operational and embodied carbon costs, positioning FPGAs as an environmentally sustainable choice for hardware acceleration compared to Application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). Experimental results show that FPGAs have lower CFP than ASICs for multiple low-volume applications or short application lifespans.
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U2 - 10.1145/3649329.3657343
DO - 10.1145/3649329.3657343
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85211108529
T3 - Proceedings - Design Automation Conference
BT - Proceedings of the 61st ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, DAC 2024
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 23 June 2024 through 27 June 2024
ER -