@inproceedings{d1b9f92283934f44aa089c632629cc30,
title = "FAReP: Fragmentation-Aware Replacement Policy for Task Reuse on Reconfigurable FPGAs",
abstract = "The use of reconfigurable chips such as FPGAs in embedded systems for many runtime applications is limited by large reconfiguration time. Techniques to circumvent this limitation relies on hardware task reuse which preserve certain circuits on the chip. However, the frequent addition and removal of circuits while preserving others on the chip will inevitably lead to fragmentation of its area, in an ongoing manner. In this paper, we present a fragmentation-aware replacement policy (FAReP) for reusing tasks on reconfigurable chips. FAReP aims not only at circumventing reconfiguration time, but also offering some defragmentation of the chip area at no extra reconfiguration cost. Our results show that FAReP leads to a reduced task rejection ratio, at least a 13% reduction in average unused chip area and up to 29% of reconfiguration time could be avoided compared to state of the art techniques based on task reuse.",
keywords = "Reconfigurable hardware, hardware Task reuse, caching, replacement policy, configuration reuse, SYSTEMS, DEFRAGMENTATION, MANAGEMENT",
author = "Godwin Enemali and Adewale Adetomi and Tughrul Arslan",
year = "2017",
doi = "10.1109/IPDPSW.2017.153",
language = "English",
series = "IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing Workshops",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers",
pages = "202--206",
booktitle = "2017 IEEE INTERNATIONAL PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING SYMPOSIUM WORKSHOPS (IPDPSW)",
address = "United States",
note = "31st IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPS) ; Conference date: 29-05-2017 Through 02-06-2017",
}