Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration Profitability for Real-Time Systems

Modern field-programmable gate arrays offer dynamic partial reconfiguration (DPR) capabilities, a characteristic that opens new scheduling opportunities for real-time applications running on heterogeneous platforms. To evaluate when it is really useful to exploit DPR, in this letter, we present the characterization of its cost terms time and definition “DPR Profitability” concept targeting systems. obtain such results, components involved DPR process have been identified an innovative approach calculate worst-case bound provided. We validate our real DPR-compliant platform, showing proposal general enough be applied modern