RECONFIGURATION STRATEGIES FOR ONLINE
HARDWARE MULTITASKING IN EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
M. Roman. Computer Science & Engineering: An International Journal, 02 (06):
01-16(December 2012)
DOI: 10.5121/cseij.2012.2601
Abstract
An intensive use of reconfigurable hardware is expected in future embedded systems. This means that the system has to decide which tasks are more suitable for hardware execution. In order to make an efficient use of the FPGA it is convenient to choose one that allows hardware multitasking, which is implemented by using partial dynamic reconfiguration. One of the challenges for hardware multitasking in embedded systems is the online management of the only reconfiguration port of present FPGA devices. This paper presents different online reconfiguration scheduling strategies which assign the reconfiguration interface resource using different criteria: workload distribution or task’ deadline. The online scheduling strategies presented take efficient and fast decisions based on the information available at each moment. Experiments have been made in order to analyze the performance and convenience of these reconfiguration strategies.
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