A Runtime Environment for Reconfigurable Hardware Operating Systems
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We present a runtime environment that partially reconfigures and executes hardware tasks on Xilinx Virtex. To that end, the FPGA’s reconfigurable surface is split into a varying number of variable-sized vertical task slots that can accommodate the hardware tasks. A bus-based communication infrastructure allows for task communication and I/O. We discuss the design of the runtime system and its prototype implementation on an reconfigurable board architecture that was specifically tailored to reconfigurable hardware operating system research.
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