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

fYear

2006

fDate

2-3 March 2006

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging VLSI Technologies and Architectures, 2006. IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on

Conference_Location

Karlsruhe

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2533-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISVLSI.2006.90

Filename

1602482