Modeling Methodologies for Dynamic Reconfigurable Systems

ISBN-13: 9783639154030 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 60 str.

Fabio Cancare

Opis

Aim of this work is to outline a new methodologicalflow that allows system designers to make use ofDynamic Reconfiguration in a new and intuitive way.As a matter of fact, Dynamic Reconfiguration can leadto enormous improvements in embedded systems design,but it is, at the same time, characterized bycomplexity and toughness of use. The proposedmethodological flow is centered on the model-baseddesign paradigm; it relies upon Simulink by TheMathWorks as long as several tools developed by theDRESD team (www.dresd.org) and by the targeted FPGAsproducers. The main issue addressed is theimplementation of large designs onto FPGAs withlimited available resources. By applying the normalsynthesis process to these systems the outcome willbe a failure due to the lack of resources. A flowbased on Dynamic Partial Reconfigurability willinstead allow its successful implementation: sincesystems are composed of blocks which needintermediate input(s) and produce intermediateoutput(s), these blocks can be separately synthesizeda priori and then hard-coded onto the PLD when theirfunctionalities become necessary.

O autorze

Fabio Cancarè was born in Bergamo, Italy, in 1983. He got a M.Sc.
degree in Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Milano and a
M.Sc degree in Computer Science at University of Illinois at
Chicago. His research interests range from embedded system design
to bioinformatics. Currently he is a Ph.D student at Politecnico
di Milano.