Title :
Transparent management of reconfigurable hardware in embedded operating systems
Author :
Kociuszkiewicz, K. ; Morgan, Fearghal ; Kepa, K.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Ireland Nat. Univ., Galway
Abstract :
A reconfigurable system-on-chip (rSoC) architecture incorporating embedded uClinux operating system and multiple co-processing nodes has been reported (Williams and Bergmann, 2004). Our paper extends this platform to incorporate transparent management of reconfigurable hardware resources. This provides a convenient and flexible means for rapid application development of rSoC systems. The co-processor allocation and task management system is described. Details of the implementation are also included
Keywords :
Linux; coprocessors; embedded systems; reconfigurable architectures; resource allocation; system-on-chip; co-processor allocation; embedded operating systems; multiple co-processing nodes; rSoC architecture; rapid application development; reconfigurable hardware resources; task management system; transparent management; uClinux operating system; Application software; Computer architecture; Coprocessors; Engineering management; Hardware; Kernel; Operating systems; Parallel processing; Pipelines; Technology management;
Conference_Titel :
Emerging VLSI Technologies and Architectures, 2006. IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Karlsruhe
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2533-4
DOI :
10.1109/ISVLSI.2006.90
