''Scheduling Real Time Tasks on Heterogeneous
Reconfigurable Devices''
Mostafa Elbidweihy
Jerry L. Trahan
Proc. 22nd International Conference on Parallel and Distributed
Computing and Communication Systems (PDCCS'09), pp. 71-76, 2009
Abstract:
Studies of scheduling a set of tasks on a partially reconfigurable device
have assumed a homogeneous reconfigurable structure with only configurable
logic blocks (CLBs) in the reconfigurable area. Most reconfigurable devices
offered in the market today, however, are heterogeneous.
A common structure is to have a homogeneous area of CLBs separated by other
components, such as memory blocks. Observe that task placement may be
constrained by demands for a memory block in addition to CLBs.
The main goal of this paper is to examine whether the ideas behind schedulers
designed for homogeneous devices will work for heterogeneous devices.
We conclude that the scheduling ideas discovered there do carry over to
heterogeneous devices with minor adaptations.