Dynamic Hardware Multiplexing: Improving Adaptability with a Run Time Reconfiguration Manager

Authors:
P. Benoit;L. Torres;G. Sassatelli;M. Robert;G. Cambon;J. Becker
Affiliations:
LIRMM, UMR University of Montpellier 2-CNRS, France;LIRMM, UMR University of Montpellier 2-CNRS, France;LIRMM, UMR University of Montpellier 2-CNRS, France;LIRMM, UMR University of Montpellier 2-CNRS, France;LIRMM, UMR University of Montpellier 2-CNRS, France;University of Karlsruhe
Venue:
ISVLSI '06 Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on Emerging VLSI Technologies and Architectures
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Dynamic reconfiguration provides interesting features offering hardware flexibility and adaptability. Unfortunately, the lack of programming tools to manage it has limited its use in current SoCs. This paper presents a method to abstract, at design-time, dynamic reconfiguration management. Dynamic Hardware Multiplexing is a generic principle based on a scheduler dedicated to reconfigurable resources management at run-time. Formal background, implementation, simulation results and validations are exposed to illustrate the contribution of this study.