Research and Development of Flexible Hardware and Remote Reconfiguration Techniques

在柔性硬件和远程重构技术的研究和开发中，通过实际实验和定量评估，得出了可重构计算的有效性、一种新的计算范式和可重构逻辑器件的潜在能力。主要研究成果如下：(1)柔性硬件设备体系结构研究考虑了一种具有可用LSI集成的运行时可重构机制。提出了一种新的设备架构，并通过评估验证了其有效性。(2)远程重构技术的开发与应用实验开发了一种跨平台的设备重构接口，实现了设备的远程重构，并通过远程逻辑分析仪的应用实验验证了其有效性。(3)可重构计算支撑软件的开发技术映射和库所及RoU…的设计与开发根据相关研究成果和现有EDA工具的评估，对下一代可重构逻辑进行了更多的TE技术研究。(4)设计并实现了可重构Logica仿真环境原型，以考察器件结构的性能和功耗，并开发了适合于所提出的体系结构的硬件设计工具。开发了基于软硬件协同设计方案的软件开发环境和适应可重构Logica开发环境，从系统描述上实现了软硬件的协同综合，并利用嵌入式处理器FPGA搭建了评估平台，验证了该方案的有效性。(6)面向包括远程重构在内的可重构计算的实用化实验通过远程重构技术构建系统，并结合具有安全设施的实际应用进行可行性实验，明确了实际应用的指导思想。较少

The effectiveness of reconfigurable computing, a new computing paradigm and the potential abilities of reconfigurable logic device were worked out from the practical experiments and the quantitative evaluations in the research and development of flexible hardware and remote reconfiguration techniques. The following are major results in each research section.(1)Study on device architecture for flexible hardwareA mechanism of run-time reconfiguration with available LSI integration was considered. New device architecture was proposed and its effectiveness was confirmed from the evaluation.(2)Development of remote reconfiguration techniques and applied experimentsA device reconfiguration API which is independent on platforms was developed to realize remote reconfiguration, and the usefulness was shown through applied experiment using remote logic analyzer.(3)Development of reconfigurable computing support softwareGuidelines for design and development of technology mapping and place and rou … More te techniques toward next generation reconfigurable logic was made from the results of related researches and the evaluation with current EDA tools.(4)Design and prototyping of reconfigurable logicA simulation environment to investigate performance and power consumption according to device organization and hardware design tool suitable for proposed architecture were developed. A next generation FPGA was designed and was also evaluated through applicable experiment.(5)Development of software development environment and adapting to reconfigurable logicA development environment based on hardware/software co-design scheme which realizes cooperative synthesis of hardware and software from system description was developed, and its effectiveness was confirmed by using evaluation platform with embedded processor FPGA.(6)Experiment toward practical use of reconfigurable computing including remote reconfigurationGuidelines for practical use were cleared through building system using remote reconfiguration techniques and feasibility experiment with practical application having security facilities. Less