TY - GEN
T1 - Resource management for dynamically-challenged reconfigurable systems
AU - Hasan, Muhammad Z.
AU - Ziavras, Sotirios G.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - To conserve space and power, and to incorporate dynamic adaptability in embedded systems, it is important to utilize hardware components as best as possible. The hardware customization of application kernels reduces the execution time and possibly the power consumption. Reconfiguring the same hardware to facilitate various customized kernels as execution proceeds greatly reduces the space requirements. When the kernel execution is carefully scheduled considering also the reconfiguration overheads, the obtained performance gain can offset such overheads. We present our policy and experiments of customizing and reconfiguring actual hardware for embedded benchmark kernels implemented on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). The results reveal substantial performance improvement and resource conservation.
AB - To conserve space and power, and to incorporate dynamic adaptability in embedded systems, it is important to utilize hardware components as best as possible. The hardware customization of application kernels reduces the execution time and possibly the power consumption. Reconfiguring the same hardware to facilitate various customized kernels as execution proceeds greatly reduces the space requirements. When the kernel execution is carefully scheduled considering also the reconfiguration overheads, the obtained performance gain can offset such overheads. We present our policy and experiments of customizing and reconfiguring actual hardware for embedded benchmark kernels implemented on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). The results reveal substantial performance improvement and resource conservation.
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U2 - 10.1109/EFTA.2007.4416761
DO - 10.1109/EFTA.2007.4416761
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:47849095476
SN - 1424408261
SN - 9781424408269
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA
SP - 119
EP - 126
BT - 12th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA 2007 Proceedings
T2 - 12th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA 2007
Y2 - 25 September 2007 through 28 September 2007
ER -