Voros / Rosti / Hübner Dynamic System Reconfiguration in Heterogeneous Platforms

The MORPHEUS Approach
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-90-481-2427-5
Verlag: Springer-Verlag
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

defines the MORPHEUS platform that can join the performance density advantage of reconfigurable technologies and the easy control capabilities of general purpose processors. It consists of a System-on-Chip made of a scalable system infrastructure hosting heterogeneous reconfigurable accelerators, providing dynamic reconfiguration capabilities and data-stream management capabilities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Voros, Nikolaos

Rosti, Alberto

Hübner, Michael

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;6
2;Acknowledgments;16
3;Contents;17
4;Contributors;20
5;Introduction to MORPHEUS;24
5.1;Introduction;25
5.1.1;A Heterogeneous Dynamically Reconfigurable SoC;25
5.2;State of the Art;34
5.2.1;SoA of Reconfigurable Computing Architectures and Tools;34
6;The MORPHEUS Architecture;49
6.1;MORPHEUS Architecture Overview;50
6.2;Flexeos Embedded FPGA Solution;57
6.2.1;Logic Reconfigurability on Silicon;57
6.3;The Dream Digital Signal Processor;66
6.3.1;Architecture, Programming Model and Application Mapping;66
6.4;XPP-III;79
6.4.1;The XPP-III Reconfigurable Processor Core;79
6.5;The Hardware Services;93
6.6;The MORPHEUS Data Communication and Storage Infrastructure;108
7;The Integrated Tool Chain;121
7.1;Overall MORPHEUS Toolset Flow;122
7.2;The Molen Organisation and Programming Paradigm;131
7.3;Control of Dynamic Reconfiguration;140
7.4;Specification Tools for Spatial Design;149
7.4.1;Front-Ends for High Level Synthesis of Accelerated Operations;149
7.5;Spatial Design;175
7.5.1;High Level Synthesis;175
8;The Applications;193
8.1;Real-Time Digital Film Processing;194
8.1.1;Mapping of a Film Grain Noise Reduction Algorithm to the MORPHEUS Platform;194
8.2;Ethernet Based In-Service Reconfiguration of SoCs in Telecommunication Networks;203
8.3;Homeland Security – Image Processing for Intelligent Cameras;212
8.4;PHY-Layer of 802.16 Mobile Wireless on a Hardware Accelerated SoC;223
9;Concluding Section;231
9.1;Conclusions;232
9.1.1;MORPHEUS Reconfigurable Platform – Results and Perspectives;232
9.2;Training;238
9.3;Dissemination of MORPHEUS Results;255
9.3.1;Spreading the Knowledge Developed in the Project;255
9.4;Exploitation from the MORPHEUS Project;264
9.4.1;Perspectives of Exploitation About the Project Results;264
9.5;Project Management;270
10;List of Acronyms;276
11;Index;279