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| Jack S.N. Jean, Karen Tomko, Vikram Yavagal, Jignesh Shah, Robert Cook, "Dynamic Reconfiguration to Support Concurrent Applications," IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 48, no. 6, pp. 591-602, June, 1999. | |||
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| @article{ 10.1109/12.773796, author = {Jack S.N. Jean and Karen Tomko and Vikram Yavagal and Jignesh Shah and Robert Cook}, title = {Dynamic Reconfiguration to Support Concurrent Applications}, journal ={IEEE Transactions on Computers}, volume = {48}, number = {6}, issn = {0018-9340}, year = {1999}, pages = {591-602}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/12.773796}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, } | |||
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| TY - JOUR JO - IEEE Transactions on Computers TI - Dynamic Reconfiguration to Support Concurrent Applications IS - 6 SN - 0018-9340 SP591 EP602 EPD - 591-602 A1 - Jack S.N. Jean, A1 - Karen Tomko, A1 - Vikram Yavagal, A1 - Jignesh Shah, A1 - Robert Cook, PY - 1999 KW - Configurable computing KW - field programmable gate array (FPGA) KW - reconfiguration KW - resource management KW - scheduling. VL - 48 JA - IEEE Transactions on Computers ER - | |||
Abstract—This paper describes the development of a dynamically reconfigurable system that can support multiple applications running concurrently. A dynamically reconfigurable system allows hardware reconfiguration while part of the reconfigurable hardware is busy computing. An FPGA resource manager (RM) is developed to allocate and de-allocate FPGA resources and to preload FPGA configuration files. For each individual application, different tasks that require FPGA resources are represented as a flow graph which is made available to the RM so as to enable efficient resource management and preloading. The performance of using the RM to support several applications is summarized. The impact of supporting concurrency and preloading in reducing application execution time is demonstrated.
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