Evaluation of Run-Time Reconfiguration for General-Purpose Computing

: In order to investigate the impact of dynamic hardware reconfiguration on general-purpose applications, we present a superscalar micro-architecture that includes a variable number of execution units. The set of execution units available is updated dynamically according to the run-time behaviour of the application. Performance is evaluated using software simulation of the proposed micro-architecture while running real-world applications of the SPEC2000 benchmark suite.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: ARCS
• Authors: Adronis Niyonkuru, Hans Christoph Zeidler
• Keywords: ARCS 2004, Dynamic Hardware Reconfiguration, Execution Units, Software Engineering, Superscalar Micro-architecture