An Architecture and Programming Framework for Dynamic Reconfigurable Computing Systems

DOI

10.2991/jcis.2006.203How to use a DOI?

Keywords

dynamic reconfigurable computing, hybrid reconfigurable architecture, transparent programming model

Abstract

Dynamic reconfigurable computing (DRC) system is becoming increasingly attractive with its potential to combine high performance and rich functionality. But problems exist in practical application of DRC, such as that designers need to know the architectural and physical details of reconfigurable device. To address this issue, a framework with hybrid architecture and transparent programming model has been proposed in this paper, which allows designers develop applications independently of the underlying physical devices. The hybrid architecture consists of microprocessors and reconfigurable hardware accelerators with corresponding control and management units. Hardware and software functions are described with function libraries that can be called in same manner by application designers. Compilation and synthesis processes are discussed to map the system description to the hybrid architecture. It is believed that this framework will be helpful to increase the development efficiency on reconfigurable computing platform.

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© 2006, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Qiang Wu
AU  - Wei Xie
AU  - Wei Wang
PY  - 2006/10
DA  - 2006/10
TI  - An Architecture and Programming Framework for Dynamic Reconfigurable Computing Systems
BT  - Proceedings of the 9th Joint International Conference on Information Sciences (JCIS-06)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 480
EP  - 483
SN  - 1951-6851
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DO  - 10.2991/jcis.2006.203
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