Leveraging reconfigurability in the hardware/software codesign process

A Methodology for Leveraging Reconfigurability in Domain Specific Languages

Special-purpose hardware can dramatically accelerate an application. However, designing special-purpose hardware is often prohibitively expensive in terms of manpower and time. This paper describes a methodology that uses reconfigurability to enable the efficient compilation of a class of domain specific languages. We present the methodology, a prototype compiler, and a 40Gb/sec network process...

Testing in Financial Services - Leveraging Process Maps

Leveraging Business Process Models for ETL Design

As Business Intelligence evolves from off-line strategic decision making to on-line operational decision making, the design of the back-end Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) processes is becoming even more complex. Many challenges arise in this new context like their optimization and modeling. In this paper, we focus on the disconnection between the IT-level view of the enterprise presented by ETL p...

Reconfigurability in Reactive Multiagent Systems

Reactive agents are suitable for representing physical resources in manufacturing control systems. An important challenge of agent-based manufacturing control systems is to develop formal and structured approaches to support their specification and verification. This paper proposes a logic-based approach, by generalising that of model checking multiagent systems, for the reconfigurability of re...

Reconfigurability in planetary surface vehicles

Traditionally, space systems have been built for fixed requirements and optimized for highest performance. Future systems for human exploration of Moon and Mars, however, require focus on new architectural strategies geared towards increased affordability and survivability in addition to performance. Reconfigurability is a new paradigm in system design that enhances these qualities. Reconfigura...