Real-time prototyping in microprocessor/accelerator symbiosis

Author

Becker, Jürgen ; Hartenstein, Reiner

Author_Institution

Inst. of Microelectron. Syst., Tech. Univ. Darmstadt, Germany

fYear

1998

Firstpage

32

Lastpage

38

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Rapid System Prototyping, 1998. Proceedings. 1998 Ninth International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Leuven

ISSN

1074-6005

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8479-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWRSP.1998.676665

Filename

676665