06141 Executive Summary – Dynamically Reconfigurable Architectures

Dynamic and partial reconfiguration of hardware architectures such as FPGAs and XPPs brings an additional level of flexibility in the design of electronic systems by exploiting the possibility of configuring functions on-demand during run-time. This has led to many new ways of approaching existing research topics in the area of hardware design and optimization techniques. For example, the possibility of performing adaptation during run-time raises questions in the areas of dynamic control, real-time response, on-line power management and design complexity, since the reconfigurability increases the design space towards infinity. This Dagstuhl Seminar on Reconfigurable Architectures has aimed at raising a few of these topics e.g. on-line placement, pre-routing/on-line routing trade-off, power minimization etc., and also at presenting novel ideas on how to overcome the difficulties introduced in dynamic reconfigurable systems.