Perspectives on programming reconfigurable computing platforms

• Type: Chapter or Part of a Book
• Date: 2008

Authors

João M. P. Cardoso (Author) FEUP; P. C. Diniz (Author) Other

Book

Title: Compilation Techniques for Reconfigurable Architectures

Pages: 177-189

ISBN: 978-0-387-09670-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-0-387-09671-1

Publisher: Springer

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00G-ZXR

DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-09671-1_7

Abstract (EN): Despite tremendous progress in the development and integration of compilation and synthesis techniques, the challenging nature of the compilation and synthesis for reconfigurable architectures has defied the establishment of a de facto standard methodology. In this chapter, we begin by providing an overall perspective of what we believe is missing to make reconfigurable computing an ever increasing reality. We then outline several outstanding issues suggesting a set of research directions in compilation techniques for these architectures. In this context, we have focused on compilation techniques and have deliberately omitted system-level aspects of reconfigurable architectures such as dynamic reconfiguration and operating systemlevel services. We then describe a vision, albeit speculative, of a compilation flow augmented by the synergetic integration of language description and transformation specification techniques as well as the notion of resource virtualization. Finally, we discuss how reconfigurable technologies can play an important role in future VLSI devices where unreliability is an important issue [57, 130]. In this context, we highlight how compilation techniques for reconfigurable architectures can also play a role in emerging nanotechnology systems.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 13