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    FPGA dynamic and partial reconfiguration : a survey of architectures, methods, and applications

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    Dynamic and partial reconfiguration are key differentiating capabilities of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). While they have been studied extensively in academic literature, they find limited use in deployed systems. We review FPGA reconfiguration, looking at architectures built for the purpose, and the properties of modern commercial architectures. We then investigate design flows, and identify the key challenges in making reconfigurable FPGA systems easier to design. Finally, we look at applications where reconfiguration has found use, as well as proposing new areas where this capability places FPGAs in a unique position for adoption

    Computer Architectures to Close the Loop in Real-time Optimization

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    © 2015 IEEE.Many modern control, automation, signal processing and machine learning applications rely on solving a sequence of optimization problems, which are updated with measurements of a real system that evolves in time. The solutions of each of these optimization problems are then used to make decisions, which may be followed by changing some parameters of the physical system, thereby resulting in a feedback loop between the computing and the physical system. Real-time optimization is not the same as fast optimization, due to the fact that the computation is affected by an uncertain system that evolves in time. The suitability of a design should therefore not be judged from the optimality of a single optimization problem, but based on the evolution of the entire cyber-physical system. The algorithms and hardware used for solving a single optimization problem in the office might therefore be far from ideal when solving a sequence of real-time optimization problems. Instead of there being a single, optimal design, one has to trade-off a number of objectives, including performance, robustness, energy usage, size and cost. We therefore provide here a tutorial introduction to some of the questions and implementation issues that arise in real-time optimization applications. We will concentrate on some of the decisions that have to be made when designing the computing architecture and algorithm and argue that the choice of one informs the other

    Performance Aspects of Synthesizable Computing Systems

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    Modeling of Topologies of Interconnection Networks based on Multidimensional Multiplicity

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    Modern SoCs are becoming more complex with the integration of heterogeneous components (IPs). For this purpose, a high performance interconnection medium is required to handle the complexity. Hence NoCs come into play enabling the integration of more IPs into the SoC with increased performance. These NoCs are based on the concept of Interconnection networks used to connect parallel machines. In response to the MARTE RFP of the OMG, a notation of multidimensional multiplicity has been proposed which permits to model repetitive structures and topologies. This report presents a modeling methodology based on this notation that can be used to model a family of Interconnection Networks called Delta Networks which in turn can be used for the construction of NoCs
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