Performance analysis of reconfiguration in adaptive realtime streaming applications

We propose a performance analysis framework for adaptive real-time synchronous data flow streaming ap-plications on runtime reconfigurable FPGAs. As the main contribution, we present a constraint based ap-proach to capture both streaming application execution semantics and the varying design concerns during reconfigurations. With our event models constructed as cumulative functions on data streams, we exploit a novel compile-time analysis framework based on iterative timing phases. Finally, we implement our frame-work on a public domain constraint solver, and illustrate its capabilities in the analysis of design trade-offs due to reconfigurations with experiments