SPP 1148:  Reconfigurable Computing Systems

• Subject Area: Computer Science, Systems and Electrical Engineering
• Term: from 2003 to 2009
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 5471871

It is the aim of the Priority Programme to provide a basis for basic research in the area of computing systems that are able to adapt their behaviour and structure to changing operating and environmental conditions, time-varying optimisation objectives and physical constraints. Examples are changing protocols, new standards or dynamically changing operation conditions of technical systems.Due to constantly decreasing product lifetimes, systems being capable of reconfiguration on different levels of hardware granularity will become more and more important because only such systems are able to provide optimal solutions for applications with constraints still being unknown at design-time and without having wasting incredible times for redesign.Moreover, the flexibility introduced with reconfigurable hardware technology allows for producing complex systems at low cost, particularly for systems being produced in low to medium volumes. Ideas for products of the future are self-reconfigurable and self-healing systems.Central research topics within the programme are the study of mechanisms and of the efficiency of reconfiguration, to investigate models and languages to support hardware reconfigurability as well as of architectures and applications. It is well known that reconfigurable computing systems are increasingly used in many application domains of technical products due to the rapidly increasing market of embedded electronic systems. Within the research program, the cooperation of an interdisciplinary team of researchers is of utmost importance for complexity reasons of such systems. Scientists from the field of semiconductor technology (System-on-a-Chip (SoC) technology, mixed signal design), computer architecture (multiprocessor systems, fault tolerance), system level programming (compiler, operating systems) and particularly experts in the field of electronic design automation are brought together. The goal of the Priority Programme is to develop a leading role of Germany in the area of reconfigurable computing systems. It is expected that both scientific and technical results will make a valuable contribution to the more efficient use of reconfigurable SoC-technology for a broad range of applications in the future.

• DFG Programme: Priority Programmes

Projects

• Adaptives Laufzeitsystem mit intelligenter Allokation für dynamisch rekonfigurierbare Funktionsmuster und optimierte Interface-Topologien (Applicant Müller-Glaser, Klaus D. )
• AMoC: Adaptive Multiprocessor on Chip (Applicant Bobda, Christophe )
• Assessment and Design Techniques for Processor-Like Reconfigurable Architectures (Applicant Rosenstiel, Wolfgang )
• Automatisierte Rekonfigurierung von Schnittstellen in eingebetteten Systemen (Applicant Hardt, Wolfram )
• Development and synthesis of an adaptive multi-grain reconfigurable hardware architecture for dynamical function patterns (Applicant Becker, Jürgen )
• Dynamisch rekonfigurierbarer Coprozessor für Netzwerkprozessoren (Applicant Maehle, Erik )
• Entwicklung von hierarchisch orientierten Methoden und Werkzeugen für den Test und Selbsttest hochintegrierter Systeme (SoCs) (Applicant Vierhaus, Heinrich Theodor )
• Entwicklung von Methoden und Werkzeugen zur Minimierung von Rekonfigurationskosten (Applicant Merker, Renate Ruth )
• Entwurf einer dynamisch rekonfigurierbaren Plattform für Kanalcodierungsverfahren zukünftiger Mobilfunksysteme (Applicant Wehn, Norbert )
• Entwurf einer universellen rekonfigurierbaren Architektur für Visual Computing (Applicant Straßer, Wolfgang )
• Entwurfsraumanalyse und Optimierung von Rekonfigurationsverfahren für dynamisch rekonfigurierbare Rechnersysteme (Applicant Glesner, Manfred )
• Koordination und Infrastruktur, Arbeitsgruppen und Berichtskolloquien des DFG-Schwerpunktprogramms "Rekonfigurierbare Rechensysteme" (Applicant Teich, Jürgen )
• Modelle und Algorithmen für hyperrekonfigurierbare Hardware (Applicant Middendorf, Martin )
• Operating Systems for Dynamically Reconfigurable Hardware: From Programming To Execution Models (Applicant Platzner, Marco )
• Optimierung auf rekonfigurierbaren Rechensystemen (Applicant Schmeck, Hartmut )
• Polymorphic objects for design of reconfigurable FPGAs (Applicant Nebel, Wolfgang )
• ReCoNets-Entwurfsmethodik für eingebettete Systeme bestehend aus kleinen Netzwerken hardwarerekonfigurierbarer Knoten und -Verbindungen (Applicant Teich, Jürgen )
• Reconfigurable controllers (Applicant Kasper, Roland )
• Reconfigurable Hardware Platforms for the MAC-Layer of Mobile Communication Systems (Applicant Glesner, Manfred )
• ReCoNodes-Optimierungsmethodik zur Steuerung hardwarekonfigurierbarer Knoten (Applicants Fekete, Sándor ;  Teich, Jürgen )
• ReCoNodes-Optimierungsmethodik zur Steuerung hardwarekonfigurierbarer Knoten (Applicant Teich, Jürgen )
• Rekonfigurierbare Komponenten für anwendungsspezifische Prozessorarchitekturen (Applicant Noll, Tobias G. )
• Rekonfigurierbares Rechensystem für Video-basierte Fahrerassistenzsysteme im Automobil (Applicant Stechele, Walter )
• Temporal partitioning and temporal placement for the design of reconfigurable computing systems (Applicant Rammig, Franz-Josef )
• Transiente Leistungsbewertung und Aufbau eines dynamisch rekonfigurierbaren Multiprozessor- bzw. Multi-FPGA-Systems (Applicant Hommel, Günter )

• Spokesperson: Professor Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Teich