Abstract: Configuration Relocation and Defragmentation for Reconfigurable Computing 1
Katherine Compton, James W. Cooley, Stephen Knol, Scott Hauck, Wa Usa · 2000
: Configuration Relocation and Defragmentation for Reconfigurable Computing 1 1 The complete paper is available at http://www.ece.nwu.edu/~kati/publications.html Katherine Compton, James Cooley, Stephen Knol Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Northwestern University Evanston, IL USA [email protected] Scott Hauck Department of Electrical Engineering University of Washington Seattle, WA USA [email protected] Abstract Custom computing systems exhibit significant speedups over traditional microprocessors by mapping computeintensive sections of a program to reconfigurable logic [Hauck98]. However, the high overhead of reconfiguration can limit the execution times achievable with these systems. Research has shown that the ability to relocate and defragment configurations on an FPGA dramatically decreases the overall configuration overhead [Li00]. We therefore explore the adaptation of the Xilinx 6200 series FPGA for relocation and defragmentation. Due to ...