Reconfigurable Computing

RC: Reconfigurable Computing

HPRC: High Performance Reconfigurable Computing

RH: Reconfigurable Hardware

ASIP: Appication Specific Instruction set Processors

• Reconfigurable Computing on Wikipedia
• Henkel Embedded Systems page at Karlsruhe
• Overview: RISPP: Rotating Instruction Set Processing Platform
• Atom/Molecule Concept from RISPP: Rotating Instruction Set Processing Platform website
• List of reconfigurable architectures

People

• Reiner Hartenstein, University of Kaiserslautern
• Scott Hauck
• Jörg Henkel, University of Karlsruhe

Architectures

• (5.12) Takashi Miyamori, Kunle Olukotun, REMARC: Reconfigurable Multimedia Array Coprocessor, IEICE Feb. 1999

-Stanford University

• (5.11) Scott Hauck, Thomas W. Fry, Matthew M. Hosler, Jeffrey P. Kao, The Chimaera Reconfigurable Functional Unit, IEEE Symposium on FPGAs for Custom Computing Machines, 1997.

-Northwestern University

Industry

• "Reconfigurable Computing for Acceleration in HPC" by Michael R. D’Amour, DRC Computer Corporation FPGA and Structured ASIC Journal, February 26, 2008

-RPUs are capable of providing under 250ns read latencies—less than half the latency seen on PCIe peripherals and far better than the microseconds latency experienced on PCI-X.

MPPA: Massively Parallel Processor Arrays

• Ambric Unleashes Teraops Video Processor, Gets Adobe Endorsement (Am2045)

-H.264 port PCI card for XP and Mac OS X The Am2045 GT uses only 15 watts of power while delivering video processing throughput equivalent to four quad-core CPUs.

Reconfigurable/Extensible Cores

• Tensilica's Xtensa reconfigurable core
• Xtensa 7 Configurable Processor Core, product brief
• Xtensa Processor Developer's Toolkit, overview
• By Dennis Moolenaar, MPEG-4 is accelerated and footprint reduced by use of a configurable processor core, Tensilica, Inc., Santa Clara, Ca., iApplianceWeb (05/14/03, 12:03:02 AM EDT)

COTS Journal

• Paul Chen, "MPPA Strategy Puts DSP/FPGA Dominance in Check", COTS Journal, April 2008, p. 38-44

-MPPA: Massively Parallel Processor Arrays

-In contrast with multicore DSPs, which have a limited number of processors (8-12), MPPAs have hundreds of processors. Each processor in an MPPA is strictly encapsulated and accesses only its own code and memory. Point-to-point communication between processors is directly realized in a configurable interconnect. Each processor runs a specific task with the guarantee that no other processor with affect its state. Hundreds of processors enable a full application to be divided naturally into a number of functions, each of which maps into a seperate processor.

Papers

Surveys

• (5.10) Reiner Hartenstein, A Decade of Reconfigurable Computing: a Visionary Retrospective CS Dept. (Informatik), University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

-http://www.fpl.uni-kl.de hartenstrhrk.uni-kl.de

• (5.13) Katherine Compton, Scott Hauck, Reconfigurable Computing: A Survey of Systems and Software, ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 34, No. 2, June 2002, pp. 171–210.

-Northwestern University, University of Washington

General

• R. Tessier and W. Burleson, "Reconfigurable Computing and Digital Signal Processing: Past, Present, and Future", Programmable Digital Signal Processors (online via ASU Library), Yu Wen Hu, ed., Marcel Dekker, New York, N.Y., 2002.

-UMass, Amherst

• R. Tessier and W. Burleson, "Reconfigurable Computing and Digital Signal Processing: A Survey", Journal of VLSI Signal Processing, May/June 2001, pp. 7-27

-UMass, Amherst

• (5.1) Wenyin Fu, Katherine Compton, "A Simulation Platform for Reconfigurable Computing Research", Field Programmable Logic and Applications, 2006. FPL '06. International Conference on 28-30 Aug. 2006 Page(s):1 - 7

-UWisconsin, Madison

• (5.4) M. Vuletic, L. Pozzi, P. Ienne, "Programming transparency and portable hardware interfacing: towards general-purpose reconfigurable computing", 15th IEEE International Conference on Application-Specific Systems, Architectures and Processors, 2004. Page(s):339 - 351

-Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Processor Architecture Laboratory

• (5.3) Proshanta Saha, Tarek El-Ghazawi, "Software/Hardware Co-Scheduling for Reconfigurable Computing Systems", International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, 2007

-George Washington University

• (5.2) Proshanta Saha, Tarek El-Ghazawi, "A Methodology for Automating Co-Scheduling for Reconfigurable Computing Systems", 2007 IEEE

-George Washington University

• (5.6) M.D. Galanis, G. Dimitroulakos, C.E. Goutis, "Speedups from partitioning critical software parts to coarse-grain reconfigurable hardware", 16th IEEE International Conference on Application-Specific Systems, Architecture Processors, 23-25 July 2005 Page(s):50 - 55

-University of Patras, Greece

• (5.5) L.S. Indrusiak, F. Lubitz, R. Reis, M. Glesner, "Ubiquitous access to reconfigurable hardware: application scenarios and implementation issues" Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, 2003 Page(s):940 - 945

-Instituto de Informática, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil

-Microelectronic Systems Institute, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

• (5.7) C. Claus, J. Zeppenfeld, F. Muller, W. Stechele, "Using Partial-Run-Time Reconfigurable Hardware to accelerate Video Processing in Driver Assistance System", Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition, 2007. DATE '07

• (5.8) Lars Bauer, Muhammad Shafique, Jörg Henkel, "Efficient Resource Utilization for an Extensible Processor through Dynamic Instruction Set Adaptation", 5th Workshop on Application Specific Processors (WASP'07), Salzburg, Austria, October 2007

-Karlsruhe

• (5.9) Lars Bauer, Muhammad Shafique, Dirk Teufel, Jörg Henkel, "A Self-Adaptive Extensible Embedded Processor", IEEE/ACM First International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO'07)

-Karlsruhe

Adaptive Algorithm for Hardware Reconfiguration

• Russell Tessier, Sriram Swaminathan, Ramaswamy Ramaswamy, Dennis Goeckel, Wayne Burleson, "A Reconfigurable, Power-Efficient Adaptive Viterbi Decoder", IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, vol. 13, no. 4, April 2005, pp. 484-488

-UMass, Amherst

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