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In the last years reconfigurable computing grew from a niche application to an important R&D scene. But also today most architectures lack essential features for the convenient use as a co-processing unit. E.g. embedded accelerator design with traditional FPGAs is very similar to sophisticated ASIC-design due to the bit-level granularity of FPGAs. In this paper important topics for reconfigurable platforms in multitasking systems are discussed. Run-time programmability as well as rapid application implementation using high-level languages are illustrated. Besides the underlying concepts the hardware implementation of a field-programmable ALU array (FPAA), the KrAA-III, is explained.
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Hartenstein, R.W., Herz, M., Hoffmann, T., Nageldinger, U. (1998). On reconfgurable co-processing units. In: Rolim, J. (eds) Parallel and Distributed Processing. IPPS 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1388. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-64359-1_675
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