A self-reconfigurable FPGA-based platform for prototyping future pervasive systems
2010
The progress in hardware technologies lead to the possibility to embed more and more computing power in portable, low-power and low-cost electronic systems. Currently almost any everyday device such as cell phones, cars or PDAs uses at least one programmable processing element. It is forecasted that these devices will be more and more interconnected in order to form pervasive systems, enabling the users to compute everywhere at every time.
This paper presents a FPGA-based self-reconfigurable platform for prototyping such future pervasive systems. The goal of this platform is to provide a generic template enabling the exploration of self-adaptation features at all levels of the computing framework (i.e. application, software, runtime architecture and hardware points of view) using a real implementation. Self-adaptation is provided to the platform by a set of closed loops comprising observation, control and actuators. Based on these loops (providing the platform with introspection), the platform can manage multiple applications (that may use parallelism) together with multiple areas able to be loaded on-demand with hardware accelerators during runtime. It can also be provided with self-healing using a model of itself. Finally, the accelerators implemented in hardware can learn how to perform their computation from a software golden model.
Focusing on the low-level part of the computing framework, the paper aims at demonstrating the interest of self-adaptation combined with collaboration between hardware and software to cope with the constraints raised by future applications and systems.
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