Performance evaluation of a preloading model in dynamically reconfigurable processors

Summarization: Dynamic reconfiguration allows for the reuse of the same hardware by different tasks of an application at different stages of its execution. However, reconfiguring the hardware at run-time incurs a configuration delay causing performance degradation of the application. This paper evaluates a preloading model that hides the configuration overhead. An existing preloading model is augmented according to the physical constraints of the system. A reduction of 6% up to 86% in execution time has been obtained with the new model.Παρουσιάστηκε στο: IEEE International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Aplication