Acceleration of read alignment with coherent attached FPGA coprocessors

With the advent of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS), the cost of sequencing human DNA has decreased significantly over the past decade. This decrease in cost has attracted a great deal of attention from medical research and is now transitioning to clinical practice. Precision medicine, tailored to a persons's genetic profile, is becoming a...

Communication Service and Dynamic Memory Management for hardware tasks executed on Dynamic and Partial Reconfigurable resources

Recent developments in the Dynamic and Partial Reconfigurable Computing requires the presence of Operating System (OS) services like scheduler, placer, reconfiguration manager etc to manage the run-time activities in the reconfigurable resource. In this thesis, we address the Inter-Task communication, which is one of the OS services required to...

A Quantitative Model for Hardware/Software Partitioning

Heterogeneous System Development needs Hardware/Software Partitioning performed early on in the development process. In order to do this early on predictions of hardware resource usage and delay are necessary. In this thesis a Quantitative Model is presented that can make early predictions to support the partitioning process. The model is based...