SPP 1148: Reconfigurable Computing Systems

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It is the aim of the Priority Programme to provide a basis for basic research in the area of computing systems that are able to adapt their behaviour and structure to changing operating and environmental conditions, time-varying optimisation objectives and physical constraints. Examples are changing protocols, new standards or dynamically changing operation conditions of technical systems.Due to constantly decreasing product lifetimes, systems being capable of reconfiguration on different levels of hardware granularity will become more and more important because only such systems are able to provide optimal solutions for applications with constraints still being unknown at design-time and without having wasting incredible times for redesign.Moreover, the flexibility introduced with reconfigurable hardware technology allows for producing complex systems at low cost, particularly for systems being produced in low to medium volumes. Ideas for products of the future are self-reconfigurable and self-healing systems.Central research topics within the programme are the study of mechanisms and of the efficiency of reconfiguration, to investigate models and languages to support hardware reconfigurability as well as of architectures and applications. It is well known that reconfigurable computing systems are increasingly used in many application domains of technical products due to the rapidly increasing market of embedded electronic systems. Within the research program, the cooperation of an interdisciplinary team of researchers is of utmost importance for complexity reasons of such systems. Scientists from the field of semiconductor technology (System-on-a-Chip (SoC) technology, mixed signal design), computer architecture (multiprocessor systems, fault tolerance), system level programming (compiler, operating systems) and particularly experts in the field of electronic design automation are brought together. The goal of the Priority Programme is to develop a leading role of Germany in the area of reconfigurable computing systems. It is expected that both scientific and technical results will make a valuable contribution to the more efficient use of reconfigurable SoC-technology for a broad range of applications in the future.