A portable abstraction layer for hardware threads

The multithreaded programming model has been shown to provide a suitable abstraction for reconfigurable computers. Previous implementations of corresponding runtime systems have been limited to a single host operating system, hardware platform, or application domain. This paper presents the implemen...

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Published in:2008 International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications pp. 17 - 22
Main Authors: Lubbers, E., Platzner, M.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01.09.2008
Subjects:
Hardware
Kernel
Linux
Operating systems
Programming
Software
Synchronization
ISBN:9781424419609, 1424419603
ISSN:1946-147X
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Summary:The multithreaded programming model has been shown to provide a suitable abstraction for reconfigurable computers. Previous implementations of corresponding runtime systems have been limited to a single host operating system, hardware platform, or application domain. This paper presents the implementation of ReconOS, our hardware/software multithreaded programming model, on both eCos and Linux-based host systems as well as on PowerPC and MicroBlaze CPUs. This demonstrates that ReconOS provides a truly portable abstraction layer for programming reconfigurable computers. Further, we quantify the performance of operating system calls and measure the resulting application level performance.
ISBN:9781424419609
1424419603
ISSN:1946-147X
DOI:10.1109/FPL.2008.4629901