Task Scheduling for Adaptive Reconfigurable VLIW Multicore Processors

Embedded Reconfigurable Architectures (ERA) is a project with the objective to design a platform that combines reconfigurable computing and network elements which can adapt on-the-fly their composition, organization and even instruction-set architectures in an effort to provide the best possible trade-offs in performance and power for the given...

Interfacing the ?-VEX with the µBlaze processor

Developments in reconfigurable platforms result in constantly increasing available area and improving technology. These improvements allow embedded systems to implement increasingly complicated systems. As a result the performance gap of processors build on FPGA technology compared to Semi-custom ASIC technology is decreasing. The down side of...

Fingerprint Verification on the VEX Processor

The speed gap between a processor realized in Semi-custom ASIC technology and a processor realized in FPGA technology is narrowing. In processor design, the approach is to define the microarchitecture of the processor and to design and implement it for executing an application domain. In this thesis, we have investigated the approach to design a...