This book provides a very strong theoretical and practical background to reconfigurable computing, from the early Estrin's machine to the very modern architecture like coarse-grained reconfigurable device and the embedded logic devices. Coverage details design and implementation, high-level synthesis for reconfigurable systems, temporal placement, on-line and dynamic interconnection, system on programmable chip, and applications. The book provides an entry point to the novice looking to move into the research field of reconfigurable computing, FPGA and system on programmable chip design. The book can also be used as teaching reference for a graduate course in computer engineering or as reference to advance electrical and computer engineers.

Architecture of Reconfigurable Systems: Exhaustive description of existing reconfigurable architectures, from the simple PLDs to very complex FPGAs and coarse-grained technologies Low-level Synthesis of reconfigurable devices (RD): State of the art algorithms for FPGA synthesis, in particular for the Look-up table technology mapping High-level synthesis (HLS): Detailed presentation of high-level synthesis approaches for reconfigurable device. Description of the fundamental difference between HLS for reconfiguration and the general HLS Temporal Placement: Algorithms for off-line and for on-line temporal placement with various goals like the efficient computation, efficient resource usage and On-line Communication: State of the art approaches for realizing dynamic communication paths between components dynamic placed on the chip at run-time Partial reconfiguration design: various approaches for designing partial reconfigurable systems on Xilinx FPGAs: tutoriallike presentation of the approaches Applications: Applications that may benefit from the use of reconfigurable device are pointed out and the use of reconfiguration to improve the systems is presented

Autorentext

Dr. Christophe Bobda is Associate Professor in the Department of Computing Science at Kaiserslautern University of Technology in Germany

Inhalt
Reconfigurable Architectures.- Implementation.- High-Level Synthesis For Reconfigurable Devices.- Temporal Placement.- Online Communication.- Partial Reconfiguration Design.- System On A Programmable Chip.- Applications.