TY - GEN
T1 - Combining hardware reconfiguration and adaptive computation for a novel SoC design methodology
AU - Rana, Vincenzo
AU - Santambrogio, Marco D.
AU - Memik, Seda Ogrenci
AU - Sciuto, Donatella
PY - 2006/12/1
Y1 - 2006/12/1
N2 - In the face of dominant communication overheads and reconfiguration cost of programmable hardware often deployed in SoC environments, a new paradigm is necessary to revisit the partitioning and allocation problems. Our aim is to integrate generalized performance models into codesign to explore the gray area between hardware and software effectively. We propose to use the adaptive computation approach. Adaptivity implies that due to input changes the output of the system is updated only re-evaluating those portions of the program affected by the changes. We study the impact of our model onto a SoC architecture consisting of embedded processors and dynamically reconfigurable hardware. We present an image processing application mapped onto this architecture as a case study.
AB - In the face of dominant communication overheads and reconfiguration cost of programmable hardware often deployed in SoC environments, a new paradigm is necessary to revisit the partitioning and allocation problems. Our aim is to integrate generalized performance models into codesign to explore the gray area between hardware and software effectively. We propose to use the adaptive computation approach. Adaptivity implies that due to input changes the output of the system is updated only re-evaluating those portions of the program affected by the changes. We study the impact of our model onto a SoC architecture consisting of embedded processors and dynamically reconfigurable hardware. We present an image processing application mapped onto this architecture as a case study.
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U2 - 10.1109/FPT.2006.270331
DO - 10.1109/FPT.2006.270331
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:43749092346
SN - 0780397282
SN - 9780780397286
T3 - Proceedings - 2006 IEEE International Conference on Field Programmable Technology, FPT 2006
SP - 293
EP - 296
BT - Proceedings - 2006 IEEE International Conference on Field Programmable Technology, FPT 2006
T2 - 2006 IEEE International Conference on Field Programmable Technology, FPT 2006
Y2 - 13 December 2006 through 15 December 2006
ER -