A NoC-based Infrastructure to Enable Dynamic Self Reconfigurable Systems

Electronic equipments with higher performance, lower power consumption, and smaller size motivate the research for more efficient design methods. Platform-based design is a method to implement complex SoCs that avoids design from scratch. Usually, a platform-based designed SoC includes one or more processors, a real-time operating system, intellectual property (IP) blocks, memories and an interconnection infrastructure. An associated advantage of processor is flexibility at the software level. Hardware is not flexible. Thus, dedicated IP blocks must be inserted at design time. An alternative is to provide the platform with reconfigurable hardware blocks with sufficient capacity to implement any envisaged dedicated IP block. Dynamic selfreconfigurable systems (DSRSs) introduce flexibility to hardware. In DSRSs, IP blocks are loaded according to application demand, an approach that potentially reduces area, power consumption and total system cost.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: RECOSOC
• Authors: Leandro Möller, Ismael Grehs, Ewerson Carvalho, Rafael Soares, Ney Calazans, Fernando Moraes
• Keywords: Hardware, IP Blocks, Lower Power Consumption, Power Consumption, RECOSOC 2007