Current Trends in Resource Management of Reconfigurable Systems

Considering multiple applications on a system which are executing concurrently, there should be mechanisms and policies which manage the competition for resources between them and resolve the conflicts. In a traditional system, these management activities can be summarized as storage management for saving the required data and I/O management to interact with the outside world. Theoretic foundations of these activities have been fully explored in literature. In view of reconfigurable systems, additional management tasks would be imposed which include FPGA logic area allocation, placement, routing, and network on chip management. This paper presents those management activities. Index Terms — Operating systems, Reconfigurable architectures, Resource management, Scheduling