Heterogeneous Platform for Stream Based Applications on FPGAs

The complexity of embedded systems is ever increasing, to support wide range of application domains. Dedicated hardware provides improved performance but with limited resources reusability and application scalability. Using higher abstraction methods for hardware development shortens the time to market. The concept of hardware objects (HWO) allows for more efficient hardware resource reuse and scalability of the target application. A single task of the application can be mapped on an appropriate type of hardware structure. A single hardware structure can be shared in time by several application tasks, multiple instances of the same HW structure can be used for concurrent computation. Uniform hardware object structure shortens design time and simplifies design of target system independently on application domain. The system could contain a heterogeneous set of HWO instances to satisfy all application domains.