How You Can Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Reconfigurable Embedded Systems: A Tutorial

This tutorial will cover technical details of how we can reconfigure our embedded hardware to optimize performance for new data streams as they arrive. As a participant, you will see details of the toolchain, including (1) the modeling infrastructure used for codesign, (2) tools used to implement the algorithms in software, (3) the tools that permit us to import C/C++ code to hardware, (4) the middleware framework we use to permit hardware and software tasks to communicate, and (5) demonstration of the behaviors at runtime. As part of the tutorial, you will see these methods applied to various image processing algorithms, including portions of the JPEG and JPEG2000 standards, with clear demonstrations of their effectiveness in terms of performance.