The Chameleon architecture for streaming DSP applications
EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems
An overview of reconfigurable hardware in embedded systems
EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems
HybridOS: runtime support for reconfigurable accelerators
Proceedings of the 16th international ACM/SIGDA symposium on Field programmable gate arrays
Customized kernel execution on reconfigurable hardware for embedded applications
Microprocessors & Microsystems
Reconfigurable Computing: The Theory and Practice of FPGA-Based Computation
Reconfigurable Computing: The Theory and Practice of FPGA-Based Computation
From Silicon to Science: The Long Road to Production Reconfigurable Supercomputing
ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS)
Task Scheduling for Context Minimization in Dynamically Reconfigurable Platforms
Journal of Signal Processing Systems
A task graph execution manager for reconfigurable multi-tasking systems
Microprocessors & Microsystems
Evaluation of runtime task mapping heuristics with rSesame: a case study
Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe
Toward a runtime system for reconfigurable computers: a virtualization approach
Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe
Efficient task scheduling for runtime reconfigurable systems
Journal of Systems Architecture: the EUROMICRO Journal
Runtime multitasking support on polymorphic platforms
ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News
Efficient datapath merging for the overhead reduction of run-time reconfigurable systems
The Journal of Supercomputing
A modified merging approach for datapath configuration time reduction
ARC'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Reconfigurable Computing: architectures, Tools and Applications
Evaluation of runtime task mapping using the rSesame framework
International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing - Special issue on Selected Papers from the International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs (ReConFig'10)
Proceedings of the eighth IEEE/ACM/IFIP international conference on Hardware/software codesign and system synthesis
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS)
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Although many studies have demonstrated the benefits of reconfigurable computing, it has not yet penetrated the mainstream. One of the biggest unsolved problems is the management of the reconfigurable hardware in a multi-threaded environment. Most research in reconfigurable computing has assumed a single-threaded model, but this is unrealistic for personal computing and many types of embedded computing. In these cases, there may be several different threads or processes running simultaneously, each wishing to use the reconfigurable hardware. The operating system must decide how to allocate the hardware at run-time based on the status of the system. The system status could also influence the choice of different implementations for each circuit based on area/speed tradeoffs. This paper examines reconfigurable computing as it could be used in mainstream systems, focusing on a proposed scheduling algorithm to allocate the reconfigurable hardware. Our initial tests indicate that reconfigurable computing with our scheduler can easily achieve at least a 20% system-level speedup.