Chapter 11. Operating System Support for Reconfigurable Computing

Katherine ComptonDepartment of Electrical and Computer EngineeringUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison

André DeHonDepartment of Electrical and Systems EngineeringUniversity of Pennsylvania

As part of the evolution of the field of reconfigurable computing, researchers are increasingly focusing their attention on the issues of integrating reconfigurable computing into multipurpose or general-purpose compute environments. Operating systems (OSs) fill two key roles in computing: simplifying the programming interface through an abstracted programming model and managing shared resources [40]. Both are critical to reconfigurable computing systems, which have in the past suffered from the stigma ...

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