D-RECS: A complete methodology to implement Self Dynamic Reconfigurable FPGA-based systems

Abstract

Dynamic self reconfigurable embedded systems are gathering, day after day, an increasing interest from both the scientific and the industrial world. At the same time, however, the need of a comprehensive and easy to use tool which can guide designers through the whole implementation process is becoming stronger. Up to now every proposed methodology for implementing dynamic self reconfigurable systems is architecture-centered. In most cases the system development process is time consuming and requires a very specific technical background. Aim of this work is to provide a fast brain to bit design flow whose goal is to simplify the dynamic reconfigurable system development process by shifting the designer focus from the architecture point of view to the application point of view: designers will not need to possess Dynamic Reconfigurability expertise but just to be skilled with the application domain.