Adaptive Computing Systems and their Design Tools

While reconfigurable adaptive computing has many proven advantages over conventional processors, in practice, it is often limited to niche applications. This situation, which we aim to resolve with our research, is often linked to the lack of programming languages for adaptive computers that are familiar to software developers. We present a compile flow capable of translating general-purpose C programs to hybrid hardware/software applications for execution on an adaptive computer and give an overview of the required advances in compiler technology as well as in computer architecture and operating system design