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A novel SoC design methodology combining adaptive software and reconfigurable hardware

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Marco D. Santambrogio,

Seda Ogrenci Memik,

Donatella SciutoAuthors Info & Claims

ICCAD '07: Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design

Pages 303 - 308

Published: 05 November 2007 Publication History

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Reconfigurable hardware is becoming a prominent component in a large variety of SoC designs. Reconfigurability allows for efficient hardware acceleration and virtually unlimited adaptability. On the other hand, overheads associated with reconfiguration and interfaces with the software component need to be evaluated carefully during the exploration phase. The aim of this paper is to identify the best trade-off considering application-specific features in software, which can lend itself to software-based acceleration and lead to a revision of the view that certain computationally intensive tasks can only be accelerated through hardware. In order to validate the effectiveness of our proposed techniques, we built an extensive development and experimental setup, bringing together the MLTon-based programming environment and physical mapping of the software and hardware onto a real dynamically reconfigurable SoC system.

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ICCAD '07: Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design

November 2007

933 pages

ISBN:1424413826

General Chair:
Georges Gielen
ESAT-MICAS, Katholieke Univ. Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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Ashraf IOstadzadeh SMeeuws RBertels KBodden EMusuvathi M(2012)Communication-aware HW/SW co-design for heterogeneous multicore platformsProceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Dynamic Analysis10.1145/2338966.2336806(36-41)Online publication date: 15-Jul-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2338966.2336806
Ostadzadeh SMeeuws RAshraf IGaluzzi CBertels K(2012)The q2 profiling frameworkProceedings of the 8th international conference on Reconfigurable Computing: architectures, tools and applications10.1007/978-3-642-28365-9_7(76-88)Online publication date: 19-Mar-2012
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