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Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Vol. 27 No. 5, pp. 1687-1771


Future-based On-line Integrated HW/SW Partitioning and Co-scheduling for Reconfigurable Computing Systems


MAISAM MANSUB BASSIRI AND HADI SHAHRIAR SHAHHOSEINI+
Department of Electrical Engineering 
Iran University of Science and Technology 
Narmak, 16846-13114, Iran 
+E-mail: hshsh@iust.ac.ir


    Reconfigurable computing systems allow executing tasks in a true multitasking manner. Such systems share the reconfigurable device and processing unit as computing resources which leads to highly dynamic allocation situations. To manage such systems at runtime, a reconfigurable operating system is needed. The main part of this operating system is resource management unit which performs HW/SW partitioning, co-scheduling and placement of hardware tasks at run-time. In this paper, we present a technique for on-line integrated HW/SW partitioning and co-scheduling. We focus on on-line, real-time and nonpreemptive systems. The main characteristics of our method are future-awareness scheduling and strong nexus between partitioning, scheduling and placement. A large variety of experiments have been conducted on the proposed algorithm using synthetic and real tasks. Obtained results show considerable benefits of this algorithm.


Keywords: reconfigurable computing, HW/SW partitioning, co-scheduling, placement, realtime tasks

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