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与开发中，通过实际实验和定量评价，得出了可重构计算的有效性、一种新的计算范式以及可重构逻辑器件的潜在能力。以下是每个研究部分的主要结果。(1)研究了柔性硬件的器件体系结构，考虑了可用LSI集成的运行时重构机制。提出了新的器件结构，并通过评价验证了其有效性。(2)远程重构技术的开发与应用实验开发了独立于平台的设备重构API，实现了远程重构，并通过远程逻辑分析仪的应用实验证明了其实用性。(3)可重构计算支持软件的开发，技术制图和位置与路径的设计与开发指南，结合相关研究成果和现有EDA工具的评价，提出了面向下一代可重构逻辑的技术。(4)设计和原型化了可重构逻辑ica仿真环境，以研究器件组织的性能和功耗，并开发了适合所提体系结构的硬件设计工具。设计了新一代FPGA，并通过应用实验对其进行了评价。(5)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逻辑的开发环境，从系统描述上实现了软硬件协同综合，并通过嵌入式处理器FPGA的评估平台验证了其有效性。(6)包括远程重构在内的可重构计算实用化实验通过构建远程重构技术系统和具有安全设施的实际应用可行性实验，明确了可重构计算实用化的指导方针。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