High-Level Synthesis of HW Tasks Targeting Run-Time Reconfigurable FPGAs

This paper presents a novel high-level synthesis (HLS) and optimization approach targeting FPGA architectures that are reconfigurable at run-time. To model a reconfigurable system on a high level of abstraction, we use a hierarchical operation (control and data) flow graph. In order to reduce the overhead for reconfiguring the system, we apply resource sharing to our model to deduce reusable design parts for the implementation. A case study compares our HLS approach with a reference design which was manually coded on register-transfer-level (RTL).