Location via proxy:   [ UP ]  
[Report a bug]   [Manage cookies]                
skip to main content
10.1145/2380403.2380444acmconferencesArticle/Chapter ViewAbstractPublication PagesesweekConference Proceedingsconference-collections
tutorial

Embedded reconfigurable architectures

Published: 07 October 2012 Publication History

Abstract

In current-day embedded systems design, one is faced with cut-throat competition to deliver new functionalities in increasingly shorter time frames. This is now achieved by incorporating processor cores into embedded systems through (re-)programmability. However, this is not always beneficial for the performance or energy consumption. Therefore, adaptable embedded systems have been proposed to deal with these negative effects by reconfiguring the critical sections of an embedded system. In these proposals, we are clearly witnessing a trend that is moving from static configurations to dynamic (re)configurations.
Consequently, the proposed embedded systems can adapt their functionality at run-time to meet the application(s) requirements (e.g., performance) while operating in different environments (e.g., power and hardware resources). Besides processor cores, we have to deal with memory hierarchies and network-on-chips that should also be (dynamically) reconfigurable. Furthermore, the interplay of these components is increasing the design complexity that can be only alleviated if they can self-optimize.
In this tutorial, we will present and discuss several strategies to perform the mentioned dynamic reconfiguration of the processor, memory, and NoC components - together with their interaction. We will review and present the state-of-the-art for the design of each component that allows for a gradual selection of design points in the trade-off between performance and power. Finally, we will highlight an open-source project that incorporates many approaches for dynamic reconfiguration in both actual hardware and simulation accompanied by the necessary tools.

Cited By

View all
  • (2015)Robots in Assisted Living Environments as an Unobtrusive, Efficient, Reliable and Modular Solution for Independent Ageing: The RADIO PerspectiveApplied Reconfigurable Computing10.1007/978-3-319-16214-0_48(519-530)Online publication date: 31-Mar-2015

Recommendations

Comments

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image ACM Conferences
CASES '12: Proceedings of the 2012 international conference on Compilers, architectures and synthesis for embedded systems
October 2012
230 pages
ISBN:9781450314244
DOI:10.1145/2380403

Sponsors

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 07 October 2012

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Check for updates

Author Tags

  1. compilers
  2. dynamic reconfiguration
  3. embedded systems and applications
  4. memory hierarchies
  5. noc
  6. processor design
  7. simulation

Qualifiers

  • Tutorial

Conference

ESWEEK'12
ESWEEK'12: Eighth Embedded System Week
October 7 - 12, 2012
Tampere, Finland

Acceptance Rates

Overall Acceptance Rate 52 of 230 submissions, 23%

Contributors

Other Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

  • Downloads (Last 12 months)0
  • Downloads (Last 6 weeks)0
Reflects downloads up to 28 Dec 2024

Other Metrics

Citations

Cited By

View all
  • (2015)Robots in Assisted Living Environments as an Unobtrusive, Efficient, Reliable and Modular Solution for Independent Ageing: The RADIO PerspectiveApplied Reconfigurable Computing10.1007/978-3-319-16214-0_48(519-530)Online publication date: 31-Mar-2015

View Options

Login options

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

PDF

eReader

View online with eReader.

eReader

Media

Figures

Other

Tables

Share

Share

Share this Publication link

Share on social media