The Comrade flow compiles ANSI-C without restrictions or annotations into combined HW-SW-solutions for reconfigurable adaptive computers, exploiting both a conventional CPU and a reconf. compute unit.

Self-reconfigurable robots consist of simple robotic modules that play a similar role in robots as cells play in biological organisms. The vision of self-reconfigurable robots is to make an evolutionary jump for robotics analog to biological organisms that evolved from single-celled to multicelled. Such robots can autonomously self-reconfigure its modules to adjust both its behavior and morphol...

Existing media processing solutions such as general purpose processors with media acceleration support or application specific hardware units fail to satisfy the constraints of low power, less silicon area and varying computing demands of the applications. Our research effort aids the design of a dynamically reconfigurable processor through the use of a set of analysis and design tools. This pa...

From the inception of an idea to the actual system implementation, the development time has been fast shrinking as the technology advances. This is partially due to system development costs. The other factor is to release the system/product to the market before other competitors. One interesting development during the last decade that has been perfectly suitable to be utilized in reducing the d...

The evolvable hardware (EHW) paradigm facilitates the construction of autonomous systems that can adapt to environmental changes and degradation of the computational resources. Extending the EHW principle to architectural adaptation, the authors study the capability of evolvable hardware classifiers to adapt to intentional run-time fluctuations in the available resources, i.e., chip area, in th...

With the increasing requirements of more flexibility and higher performance in embedded systems design, the concept of reconfigurable computing has become more attractive. Especially, there have been many coarse-grained reconfigurable array architectures proposed and/or commercialized. However, the existing reconfigurable array architectures have been designed without the concept of application...

By flexibly manipulating the radio propagation environment, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technique for future wireless communications. However, single-side coverage and double-fading attenuation faced by conventional RISs largely restrict their applications. To address this issue, we propose novel concept of multi-functional RIS (MF-RIS), which provides reflection, tr...

For developing design envionment for various types of Dynamically Reconfigurable Processor Arrays (DRPAs), the GCI (Graph with Configuration Information) is proposed to represent configurable resource in the target dynamically reconfigurable architecture. The function unit, constant unit, register, and routing resource can be represented in the graph as well as the configuration information. Th...