While fine-grain, reconfigurable devices have been available for years, they are mostly used in a fixed functionality, "asic-replacement" manner. To exploit opportunities for flexible and adaptable run-time exploitation of fine grain reconfigurable resources (as implemented currently in dynamic, partial reconfiguration), better tool support is needed. The FASTER project aims to provide a methodology and a tool-chain that will enable designers to efficiently implement a reconfigurable system on a platform combining software and reconfigurable resources. Starting from a high-level application description and a target platform, our tools analyse the application, evaluate reconfiguration options, and implement the designer choices on underlying vendor tools. In addition, FASTER addresses micro-reconfiguration, verification, and the run-time management of system resources. We use industrial applications to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework and identify new opportunities for reconfigurable technologies. © 2014 Springer International Publishing Switzerland.
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Pnevmatikatos, D. N., Becker, T., Brokalakis, A., Gaydadjiev, G. N., Luk, W., Papadimitriou, K., … Stroobandt, D. (2014). Effective reconfigurable design: The FASTER approach. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 8405 LNCS, pp. 318–323). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05960-0_35
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