A framework for reducing the cost of instrumented code
Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2001 conference on Programming language design and implementation
The MOLEN Polymorphic Processor
IEEE Transactions on Computers
An Execution Environment for Reconfigurable Computing
FCCM '05 Proceedings of the 13th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines
The Molen compiler for reconfigurable processors
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS)
Detours: binary interception of Win32 functions
WINSYM'99 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on USENIX Windows NT Symposium - Volume 3
A unified hardware/software runtime environment for FPGA-based reconfigurable computers using BORPH
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS)
HybridOS: runtime support for reconfigurable accelerators
Proceedings of the 16th international ACM/SIGDA symposium on Field programmable gate arrays
Liquid Metal: Object-Oriented Programming Across the Hardware/Software Boundary
ECOOP '08 Proceedings of the 22nd European conference on Object-Oriented Programming
StarPU: A Unified Platform for Task Scheduling on Heterogeneous Multicore Architectures
Euro-Par '09 Proceedings of the 15th International Euro-Par Conference on Parallel Processing
Toward a runtime system for reconfigurable computers: a virtualization approach
Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe
ISCA'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Computer Architecture
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General purpose computers are moving towards employing reconfigurable fabrics in order to achieve higher performance. In such systems, serving several applications at runtime is a challenging problem in which the reconfigurable fabric has to be shared among competing tasks. Because of the inherent complexity of mapping the computation intensive tasks into the FPGA, a comprehensive runtime system is required to address all the conflicting issues between competing applications' demands and to keep the system performance at the required level. In this paper, we present a runtime environment wherein a number of components introduced to handle the task assignment problem in a very low overhead manner. This runtime system completely virtualizes the underlying hardware and thus relieve the program developers from the difficulties of hardware design issues. More specifically, we discuss the design and implementation of the scheduler as the fundamental component as well as the profiler and the runtime binding mechanism in our runtime system.