Reconfigurable Computing From FPGAs to Hardware/Software Codesign

As the complexity of modern embedded systems increases, it becomes less practical to design monolithic processing platforms.  As a result, reconfigurable computing is being adopted widely for more flexible design.  Reconfigurable Computers offer

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João M.P. Cardoso    Michael Hübner ●

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Reconfigurable Computing From FPGAs to Hardware/Software Codesign

Editors João M.P. Cardoso Departamento de Engenharia Informática Faculdade de Engenharia (FEUP) Universidade do Porto Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n, 4200–465 Porto, Portugal [email protected]

Michael Hübner Institut für Technik der Informationsverarbeitung, Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) Kaiserstr. 12 Karlsruhe, Germany [email protected]

ISBN 978-1-4614-0060-8 e-ISBN 978-1-4614-0061-5 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-0061-5 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2011933471 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Preface Dr. Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos

The objective of the European research programme in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is to improve the competitiveness of European industry and enable Europe to master and shape future developments in ICT. ICT is at the very core of the knowledge based society. EU research funding has as target to strengthen Europe’s scientific and technology base and to ensure European leadership in ICT, help drive and stimulate product, service and process innovation and creativity through ICT use and value creation in Europe, and ensure that ICT progress is rapidly transformed into benefits for Europe’s citizens, businesses, industry and governments. Over the past years, the European Commission has constantly increased the amount of funding going to research in computing architectures and tools through the European research programme in Information and Communication Technologies. In this context, the European Commission has funded a number of European research projects in the area of reconfigurable computing. Results from these projects are being presented in this book providing a valuable reference point, which describes the efforts of several international research teams. Reconfigurable Computing is a fascinating alternative to mainstream computing. But is it always going to remain just an alternative occupying a market niche? The potential for reconfigurable computing has not yet been fully unleashed although there have been notable succes