Compa backend: A dynamic runtime for the execution of dataflow programs onto multi-core platforms

In this demo we will present a design flow for multi-core based embedded systems. Namely, we implement a kernel capable of modifying the system at run time to increase data throughput. The design flow starts with the Dynamic Dataflow and RVC-CAL (Reconfigurable Video Coding Cal Actor Language) descriptions of an application and goes up to the deployment of the system onto the hardware platform. As a use case, we implement an MPEG-4 decoder algorithm onto a multi-core heterogeneous system deployed onto the Zynq platform from Xilinx.