Smart technologies for effective reconfiguration: The FASTER approach
Paper in proceeding, 2012

Current and future computing systems increasingly require that their functionality stays flexible after the system is operational, in order to cope with changing user requirements and improvements in system features, i.e. changing protocols and data-coding standards, evolving demands for support of different user applications, and newly emerging applications in communication, computing and consumer electronics. Therefore, extending the functionality and the lifetime of products requires the addition of new functionality to track and satisfy the customers needs and market and technology trends. Many contemporary products along with the software part incorporate hardware accelerators for reasons of performance and power efficiency. While adaptivity of software is straightforward, adaptation of the hardware to changing requirements constitutes a challenging problem requiring delicate solutions. The FASTER (Facilitating Analysis and Synthesis Technologies for Effective Reconfiguration) project aims at introducing a complete methodology to allow designers to easily implement a system specification on a platform which includes a general purpose processor combined with multiple accelerators running on an FPGA, taking as input a high-level description and fully exploiting, both at design time and at run time, the capabilities of partial dynamic reconfiguration. The goal is that for selected application domains, the FASTER toolchain will be able to reduce the design and verification time of complex reconfigurable systems providing additional novel verification features that are not available in existing tool flows.

Author

M. D. Santambrogio

Polytechnic University of Milan

Dionisios N. Pnevmatikatos

Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH)

Kyprianos D. Papadimitriou

Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH)

Christian Pilato

Polytechnic University of Milan

Georgi Gaydadjiev

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Computer Engineering (Chalmers)

D. Stroobandt

Ghent university

T. Davidson

Ghent university

T. Becker

Imperial College London

T. Todman

Imperial College London

W. Luk

Imperial College London

A. Bonetto

Polytechnic University of Milan

A. Cazzaniga

Polytechnic University of Milan

G.C. Durelli

Polytechnic University of Milan

Donatella Sciuto

Polytechnic University of Milan

ReCoSoC 2012 - 7th International Workshop on Reconfigurable and Communication-Centric Systems-on-Chip, Proceedings

6322881
978-1-4673-2572-1 (ISBN)

Facilitating Analysis and Synthesis Technologies\nfor Effective Reconfiguration (FASTER)

European Commission (EC) (EC/FP7/287804), 2011-09-01 -- 2014-11-30.

Subject Categories

Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

DOI

10.1109/ReCoSoC.2012.6322881

ISBN

978-1-4673-2572-1

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