RAMPASS: Reconfigurable and advanced multi-processing architecture for future silicon systems

Abstract

Reconfigurable devices are used to map different kinds of applications that exploit virtual hardware concepts. A more efficient utilization of such circuits is to adapt application at the run-time. During the process of an application, computing methods can change. Therefore, the next generation of reconfigurable architectures should provide many computing methods such as MIMD, SIMD, VLIW or multi-threading. Any application is composed of two parts: a control part for operation scheduling and a computation part required for operators. Existing reconfigurable architectures use the same structure to implement these two parts. The solution presented in this paper is based on two reconfigurable resources. The first is suitable for control processes and the second for computation purposes. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004.