A model for dynamic adaptation in reconfigurable hardware systems

Author

Milne, George

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., South Australia Univ., Adelaide, SA, Australia

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

161

Lastpage

169

Abstract

A theory is presented in which to model the changing structure found in reconfigurable computing devices and which provides a foundation for developing the languages necessary to program such devices. The core concept is that of a complex system of agents which interact with each other over a changing, connective topological structure. The agents themselves may be created, destroyed and evolve in a biological-like manner These concepts and the manner in which they are harnessed within the dsCircal model are presented in this paper. The relationship between these concepts and reconfigurable evolvable hardware is outlined, giving a basis for a compilation mechanism allowing the high-level programming of dynamically changing hardware systems

Keywords

field programmable gate arrays; reconfigurable architectures; software prototyping; compilation mechanism; connective topological structure; dsCircal model; dynamic adaptation model; dynamically changing hardware systems; high-level programming; reconfigurable evolvable hardware; reconfigurable hardware systems; Adaptation model; Australia; Dynamic programming; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Hip; Information science; Logic arrays; Microprocessors; Reconfigurable logic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Evolvable Hardware, 1999. Proceedings of the First NASA/DoD Workshop on

Conference_Location

Pasadena, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0256-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EH.1999.785448

Filename

785448