Parallel hardware objects for dynamically partial reconfiguration

Many of today's software-to-hardware compiler projects try to find dataflow parallelism in a sequential program description and use it to generate parallel running hardware components. In this paper we present a new possibility to do a parallel description based on the combination of objectoriented programming and dynamically partial reconfiguration. Our compiler translates software objects directly to Hardware Objects, which are running in parallel and can be instantiated and removed dynamically. Furthermore, we focus on parallel inter object communication which allows the Hardware Objects to communicate in parallel.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: FPL
• Authors: Norbert Abel, Frederik Grüll, Nick Meier, Andreas Beyer, Udo Kebschull
• Keywords: FPL 2008, Hardware, Parallel Description, Parallel Inter Object, Parallel Running Hardware