Performance of applications with computationally intensive kernels can be improved by a general-purpose processor used together with application-specific hardware accelerators. To accelerate a wide range of applications with different kernels, a runtime reconfigurable fabric (such as an embedded FPGA) is used. Each application can deploy its own accelerators onto the fabric in order to improve ...

The design of reconfigurable systems is currently an area of intense interest within the programmable logic community. One of the main obstacles to the widespread adoption of this technology is the relative immaturity of the associated design methodologies and tools. This paper reports on a development environment and associated tools for the implementation and debugging of reconfigurable appli...

Nowadays, reconfigurable systems, in general, and FPGA (field-programmable gate array) based devices, in particular, constitute an essential part of engineering practice. The paper argues the importance of reconfigurable systems in engineering and especially in education and proposes effective learning and design methods and tools, which include laboratory templates, animated tutorials, problem...

Reconfigurable Manufacturing System (RMS) is one of most promising paradigms that provide an effective solution to changes and uncertainties in a competitive manufacturing environment. A Reconfigurable Assembly System (RAS) is a key component of an RMS. In this paper, our survey on the development of RAS has been summarised. The objectives of this literature survey are to: • clarify the needs a...

Since FPGAs are inherently reconfigurable, making FPGA designs generic does not reduce chip cost, as is the case for ASICs. However, designing and mapping lots of specialized FPGA designs introduces an extra EDA cost. We describe a two staged fully automatic FPGA tool flow that efficiently maps a generic HDL design to multiple specialized FPGA configurations. The mapping is fast enough to be ex...

Due to the combination of flexibility and realization efficiency, reconfigurable hardware has become a promising implementation alternative. In the context of the IST-AMDREL project, a mixed granularity reconfigurable SoC platform targeting wireless communication systems has been developed. The platform’s main building blocks are presented, including coarse grain reconfigurable unit, embedded F...

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and reconfigurable crossbar switches currently represent distinct classes of integrated circuits. There is a need, however, for user-programmable devices that can provide both digital logic and fast, reconfigurable crossbar switching of digital signals within a single package. An investigation into the use of dynamically reconfigurable FPGAs for this purpo...

From silicon to science : the long road to production reconfigurable supercomputing p. 2 The von Neumann syndrome and the CS education dilemma p. 3 Optimal unroll factor for reconfigurable architectures p. 4 Programming reconfigurable decoupled application control accelerator for mobile systems p. 15 DNA physical mapping on a reconfigurable platform p. 27 Hardware BLAST algorithms with multi-se...