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Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition Volume I (DATE'04)
Paris, France
February 16-February 20
ISBN: 0-7695-2085-5
Miljan Vuletić, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
Ludovic Righetti, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
Laura Pozzi, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
Paolo Ienne, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
Reconfigurable Systems-on-Chip (SoC) consist of large Field-Programmable Gate-Arrays (FPGAs) and standard processors. The reconfigurable logic can be used for application-specific coprocessors to speedup execution of applications. The widespread use is limited by the complexity of interfacing software applications with coprocessors. We present a virtualisation layer that lowers the interfacing complexity and improves the portability. The layer shifts the burden of moving data between processor and coprocessor from the programmer to the Operating System (OS). A reconfigurable SoC running Linux is used to prove the concept.
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Miljan Vuletić, Ludovic Righetti, Laura Pozzi, Paolo Ienne, "Operating System Support for Interface Virtualisation of Reconfigurable Coprocessors," date, vol. 1, pp.10748, Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition Volume I (DATE'04), 2004
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