Dynamic cache configuration for the ρ-VEX platform

The ρ-VEX is a processor designed at the Computer Engineering lab at TU Delft to be reconfigurable at runtime, resulting in a processor that can combine or separate instruction lanes according to the program requirements. The current cache for the ρ-VEX processor is direct mapped and always identical to the instruction group configuration. This...

Architecture for Emergent Craftsmanship: Digitally manufactured, mass customized and reconfigurable workshops for makers

This project relates to 4th industrial revolution and the digital era and nswers the needs of todays craftsmen. Recent times prove that production of goods becomes decentralized while factories and mass production is being replaced by mass customization and digital craftsmanship. Todays artists and designers often collaborate and create co...

Implementing Virtual Address Hardware Support on the ?-VEX Platform

The ?-VEX is a run-time reconfigurable Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) processor. This unique processor allows separation of its issue lanes to form independently operating processing cores. Switching between these configuration during run-time allows optimizing the platform for the task(s) it is performing. Porting an Operating System (OS) to...

Porting Linux to the rVEX reconfigurable VLIW softcore

This thesis describes the design and implementation of an FPGA-based hardware platform based on the rVEX VLIW softcore and the adaption of a Linux 2.0 no_mmu kernel to run on that platform. The rVEX is a runtime reconfigurable VLIW softcore processor. It supports various configurations that allow programs to run faster or more efficient. The...

Architectural Intervention Into Unplanned Settlement And Informal Use

Project in the studio of Border Conditions. A proposal for a reconfigurable and transformable low-tech building system for the Cañada Real Galiana in Madrid. The project consist of small building units, used for market, climbing and habitat. The structures are made out of recycled wood. The project is fixes in the Cañada Real Galiana, a strip of...

Transferium for Almere Pampus

The proposed location for a tranferium within Pampus, a new extension of Almere, is subject to long term, short term and 24/7 changes. As a solution to this changing environment this project proposes an architecture that is reconfigurable based on actual demands and constraints. These serve as input for a tool that renders architectural...

Reconfigurable Architecture

This research graduation project aims to explore the possibilities of reconfigurable architecture as a response to the issue of designing for the uncertainty. A keen interest in computational tools as a powerful way to analyse, measure and materialize a Media Center at the NDSM (Amsterdam).