Efficient Execution of Process Networks on a Reconfigurable Hardware Virtual Machine

Abstract

In this paper, we present a novel use of an FPGA as a computing element for streaming based application. We investigate the virtualized execution of dynamic reconfigurable tasks. We use the process networks model as a coordination language which is interpreted on a virtual machine run-time system. We present and discuss the results of a design space exploration, which evaluates the performance of the system architecture for different configurations.