Title :
Real-time prototyping in microprocessor/accelerator symbiosis
Author :
Becker, Jürgen ; Hartenstein, Reiner
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Microelectron. Syst., Tech. Univ. Darmstadt, Germany
Abstract :
The paper introduces a new coarse-grained dynamically reconfigurable hardware platform and a general model for prototyping cooperating host/accelerator platforms under real-time constraints. A new parallelizing compilation method derived from this model is explained, whereas novel “vertical” parallelization techniques are applied for such structural programmable accelerators. For performing real-time constraint analysis and fulfilment the process of task performance estimation for host/accelerator executions is explained. Additionally the paper explained the overall execution time estimation of multi-task applications
Keywords :
microcomputers; parallelising compilers; real-time systems; reconfigurable architectures; software prototyping; coarse-grained dynamically reconfigurable hardware platform; cooperating host/accelerator platform prototyping; microprocessor/accelerator symbiosis; multi-task applications; overall execution time estimation; parallelizing compilation method; real-time constraint analysis; real-time prototyping; structural programmable accelerators; task performance estimation; Acceleration; Application software; Circuits; Dynamic programming; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Microprocessors; Prototypes; Reconfigurable logic; Symbiosis;
Conference_Titel :
Rapid System Prototyping, 1998. Proceedings. 1998 Ninth International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Leuven
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8479-8
DOI :
10.1109/IWRSP.1998.676665
