Over the past few years, the realm of embedded systems has expanded to include a wide
variety of products, ranging from digital cameras, to sensor networks, to medical imaging …

Reconfigurable Computing marks a revolutionary and hot topic that bridges the gap
between the separate worlds of hardware and software design—the key feature of …

Heterogeneous reconfigurable systems provide drastically higher performance and lower
power consumption than traditional CPU-centric systems. Moreover, they do it at much lower …

Today's reconfigurable hardware devices have huge densities and are partially
reconfigurable, allowing for the configuration and execution of hardware tasks in a true …

Rising logic densities together with the inclusion of dedicated processor cores push
reconfigurable devices from being applied for glue logic and prototy** towards …

This paper compares three heuristic search algorithms: genetic algorithm (GA), simulated
annealing (SA) and tabu search (TS), for hardware–software partitioning. The algorithms …

Partial reconfiguration allows for map** and executing several tasks on an FPGA during
runtime. Multitasking on FPGAs raises a number of questions on the management of the …

Advances in optoelectronic technologies have catapulted optical interconnects and optical
computing to the forefront, opening possibilities not previously considered in conventional …

The continued growth of both wired and wireless communications has triggered the
revolution for the generation of new cryptographic algorithms. SHA-2 hash family is a new …

This paper presents our work toward an operating system that manages the resources of a
reconfigurable device in a multitasking manner. We propose an online scheduling system …