Hardware task context management for fine grained dynamically recon gurable architecture

Samuel Garcia (1) , Jean-Christophe Prévotet (2) , Bertrand Granado (3)

1 ETIS - UMR 8051 - Equipes Traitement de l'Information et Systèmes
2 IETR - Institut d'Électronique et des Technologies du numéRique
3 ASTRE [Cergy-Pontoise]

Today's FGDRA could now be regarded, not only as prototyping platforms, but also as reliable alternative to ASICs for consumers products production platforms. To deal with such a system, we propose a middleware layer (RTOS) named SMILE, which could manage not only software process but also hardware tasks running on an FGDRA. Preemption issues for hardware tasks on such a system will be treated, introducing the concept of PDR-SoC2. In this paper, our work on hardware FGDRA based task contexts, its management and its evaluation, is exposed.

Domaines: Architectures Matérielles [cs.AR]

Samuel Garcia, Jean-Christophe Prévotet, Bertrand Granado. Hardware task context management for fine grained dynamically recon gurable architecture. Workshop on Design and Architectures for Signal and Image Processing, Nov 2007, Grenoble, France. pp.1. ⟨hal-00665798⟩