FPGA architecture extensions for preemptive multitasking and hardware defragmentation

Author

Koch, Dirk ; Ahmadinia, Ali ; Bobda, Christophe ; Kalte, Heiko

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Erlangen Univ., Nuremberg, Germany

fYear

2004

fDate

6-8 Dec. 2004

Firstpage

433

Lastpage

436

Abstract

The focus in This work is put onto extensions to typical FPGA hardware architectures in order to support some operating system functions. In particular, we examine the problem of preemptive multitasking and hardware defragmentation on a reconfigurable system based on FPGAs with a dynamically changing set of hardware tasks that can be replaced considering internal states.

Keywords

field programmable gate arrays; logic design; multiprogramming; reconfigurable architectures; FPGA architecture extensions; FPGA hardware architectures; field programmable gate arrays; hardware defragmentation; operating system functions; preemptive multitasking; reconfigurable system; Computer architecture; Computer science; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Logic devices; Multitasking; Operating systems; Reconfigurable logic; Registers; Software systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Field-Programmable Technology, 2004. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8651-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FPT.2004.1393318

Filename

1393318

Link To Document

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