Managing a reconfigurable processor in a general purpose workstation environment

Dales, M. (2003) Managing a reconfigurable processor in a general purpose workstation environment. In: Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, Paris, 4-8 March 2002, pp. 980-985.

Abstract

Reconfigurable processor hybrids are becoming an accepted solution in the embedded systems domain, but have yet to gain acceptance in the general purpose workstation domain. One problem with current solutions is their lack of support for the dynamic workloads and resource demands of a general purpose workstation. In this paper we describe and demonstrate a reconfigurable processor architecture that lets the operating system dynamically share the Field Programmable Logic (FPL) resource between a set of applications without the management overheads negating the benefit of having the extra resource.

• Item Type: Conference Proceedings
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: UNSPECIFIED
• Authors: Dales, M.
• Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• ISSN: 1530-1591
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2003 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• First Published: First published in Proceedings of Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, 2003.
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher