A Framework for Customizing Virtual 3-D Reconfigurable Platforms at Run-Time

Abstract

Existing application domains exhibit variations in terms of complexity, performance and power consumption, whereas their efficient implementation onto general-purpose reconfigurable platforms is not always a viable solution. Towards this goal, throughout this paper, we introduce a software-supported framework for supporting efficient customization of these platforms. Rather than similar approaches, where the phase (design-time), our solution provides post-fabrication customization of architectural parameters based on application's inherent requirements through a virtualization layer. For evaluation purposes, the introduced framework was applied to 3-D reconfigurable architectures. Experimental results with applications from various domains prove the effectiveness of our solution, as we achieve average delay and power reduction by 1.43X and 1.15X , respectively, as compared to the existing way for application implementation.