@article{2412, abstract = {{ Reconfigurable architectures that tightly integrate a standard CPU core with a field-programmable hardware structure have recently been receiving impact of these design decisions on the overall system performance is a challenging task. In this paper, we first present a framework for the cycle-accurate performance evaluation of hybrid reconfigurable processors on the system level. Then, we discuss a reconfigurable processor for data-streaming applications, which attaches a coarse-grained reconfigurable unit to the coprocessor interface of a standard embedded CPU core. By means of a case study we evaluate the system-level impact of certain design features for the reconfigurable unit, such as multiple contexts, register replication, and hardware context scheduling. The results illustrate that a system-level evaluation framework is of paramount importance for studying the architectural trade-offs and optimizing design parameters for reconfigurable processors.}}, author = {{Enzler, Rolf and Plessl, Christian and Platzner, Marco}}, journal = {{Microprocessors and Microsystems}}, keywords = {{FPGA, reconfigurable computing, co-simulation, Zippy}}, number = {{2-3}}, pages = {{63--73}}, publisher = {{Elsevier}}, title = {{{System-level performance evaluation of reconfigurable processors}}}, doi = {{10.1016/j.micpro.2004.06.004}}, volume = {{29}}, year = {{2005}}, } @inproceedings{13621, author = {{Danne, Klaus and Platzner, Marco}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Intelligent Solutions in Embedded Systems (WISES)}}, isbn = {{3902463031}}, title = {{{Periodic real-time scheduling for FPGA computers}}}, doi = {{10.1109/wises.2005.1438720}}, year = {{2005}}, } @inproceedings{13622, author = {{Danne, Klaus and Platzner, Marco}}, booktitle = {{Work-in-Progress Proceedings of the 17th Euromicro Conference on Real-time Systems (ECRTS)}}, title = {{{Memory-demanding Periodic Real-time Applications on FPGA Computers}}}, year = {{2005}}, } @inproceedings{13623, author = {{Danne, Klaus and Platzner, Marco}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)}}, isbn = {{0780393627}}, publisher = {{IEEE CS Press}}, title = {{{A heuristic approach to schedule periodic real-time tasks on reconfigurable hardware}}}, doi = {{10.1109/fpl.2005.1515787}}, year = {{2005}}, } @inproceedings{2415, abstract = {{In this paper we introduce to virtualization of hardware on reconfigurable devices. We identify three main approaches denoted with temporal partitioning, virtualized execution, and virtual machine. For each virtualization approach, we discuss the application models, the required execution architectures, the design tools and the run-time systems. Then, we survey a selection of important projects in the field. }}, author = {{Plessl, Christian and Platzner, Marco}}, booktitle = {{Proc. Int. Conf. on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA)}}, keywords = {{hardware virtualization}}, pages = {{63--69}}, publisher = {{CSREA Press}}, title = {{{Virtualization of Hardware – Introduction and Survey}}}, year = {{2004}}, } @article{10742, author = {{Steiger, Christoph and Walder, Herbert and Platzner, Marco}}, journal = {{{IEEE} Transactions on Computers}}, number = {{11}}, pages = {{1393--1407}}, title = {{{Operating systems for reconfigurable embedded platforms: online scheduling of real-time tasks}}}, doi = {{10.1109/tc.2004.99}}, volume = {{53}}, year = {{2004}}, } @inproceedings{13618, author = {{Walder, Herbert and Platzner, Marco}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)}}, isbn = {{9783540229896}}, issn = {{0302-9743}}, pages = {{831--835}}, publisher = {{Springer}}, title = {{{A Runtime Environment for Reconfigurable Hardware Operating Systems}}}, doi = {{10.1007/978-3-540-30117-2_84}}, year = {{2004}}, } @inproceedings{13619, author = {{Walder, Hebert and Nobs, Samuel and Platzner, Marco}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA)}}, publisher = {{CSREA Press}}, title = {{{XF-BOARD: A Prototyping Platform for Reconfigurable Hardware Operating Systems}}}, year = {{2004}}, } @inproceedings{13620, author = {{Dyer, Matthias and Platzner, Marco and Thiele, Lothar}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings 12th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM)}}, isbn = {{0769522300}}, publisher = {{IEEE CS Press}}, title = {{{Efficient Execution of Process Networks on a Reconfigurable Hardware Virtual Machine}}}, doi = {{10.1109/fccm.2004.31}}, year = {{2004}}, } @inproceedings{2418, abstract = {{ This paper presents TKDM, a PC-based high-performance reconfigurable computing environment. The TKDM hardware consists of an FPGA module that uses the DIMM (dual inline memory module) bus for high-bandwidth and low-latency communication with the host CPU. The system's firmware is integrated with the Linux host operating system and offers functions for data communication and FPGA reconfiguration. The intended use of TKDM is that of a dynamically reconfigurable co-processor for data streaming applications. The system's firmware can be customized for specific application domains to facilitate simple and easy-to-use programming interfaces. }}, author = {{Plessl, Christian and Platzner, Marco}}, booktitle = {{Proc. Int. Conf. on Field Programmable Technology (ICFPT)}}, keywords = {{coprocessor, DIMM, memory bus, FPGA, high performance computing}}, pages = {{252--259}}, publisher = {{IEEE Computer Society}}, title = {{{TKDM – A Reconfigurable Co-processor in a PC's Memory Slot}}}, doi = {{10.1109/FPT.2003.1275755}}, year = {{2003}}, } @article{2419, abstract = {{Wearable computers are embedded into the mobile environment of their users. A design challenge for wearable systems is to combine the high performance required for tasks such as video decoding with the low energy consumption required to maximise battery runtimes and the flexibility demanded by the dynamics of the environment and the applications. In this paper, we demonstrate that reconfigurable hardware technology is able to answer this challenge. We present the concept and the prototype implementation of an autonomous wearable unit with reconfigurable modules (WURM). We discuss experiments that show the uses of reconfigurable hardware in WURM: ASICs-on-demand and adaptive interfaces. Finally, we present an experiment with an operating system layer for WURM.}}, author = {{Plessl, Christian and Enzler, Rolf and Walder, Herbert and Beutel, Jan and Platzner, Marco and Thiele, Lothar and Tröster, Gerhard}}, journal = {{Personal and Ubiquitous Computing}}, number = {{5}}, pages = {{299--308}}, publisher = {{Springer}}, title = {{{The Case for Reconfigurable Hardware in Wearable Computing}}}, doi = {{10.1007/s00779-003-0243-x}}, volume = {{7}}, year = {{2003}}, } @article{2420, abstract = {{ This paper presents the acceleration of minimum-cost covering problems by instance-specific hardware. First, we formulate the minimum-cost covering problem and discuss a branch \& bound algorithm to solve it. Then we describe instance-specific hardware architectures that implement branch \& bound in 3-valued logic and use reduction techniques similar to those found in software solvers. We further present prototypical accelerator implementations and a corresponding design tool flow. Our experiments reveal significant raw speedups up to five orders of magnitude for a set of smaller unate covering problems. Provided that hardware compilation times can be reduced, we conclude that instance-specific acceleration of hard minimum-cost covering problems will lead to substantial overall speedups. }}, author = {{Plessl, Christian and Platzner, Marco}}, issn = {{0920-8542}}, journal = {{Journal of Supercomputing}}, keywords = {{reconfigurable computing, instance-specific acceleration, minimum covering}}, number = {{2}}, pages = {{109--129}}, publisher = {{Kluwer Academic Publishers}}, title = {{{Instance-Specific Accelerators for Minimum Covering}}}, doi = {{10.1023/a:1024443416592}}, volume = {{26}}, year = {{2003}}, } @inproceedings{2421, abstract = {{In contrast to processors, current reconfigurable devices totally lack programming models that would allow for device independent compilation and forward compatibility. The key to overcome this limitation is hardware virtualization. In this paper, we resort to a macro-pipelined execution model to achieve hardware virtualization for data streaming applications. As a hardware implementation we present a hybrid multi-context architecture that attaches a coarse-grained reconfigurable array to a host CPU. A co-simulation framework enables cycle-accurate simulation of the complete architecture. As a case study we map an FIR filter to our virtualized hardware model and evaluate different designs. We discuss the impact of the number of contexts and the feature of context state on the speedup and the CPU load.}}, author = {{Enzler, Rolf and Plessl, Christian and Platzner, Marco}}, booktitle = {{Proc. Int. Conf. on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)}}, keywords = {{Zippy, multi-context, FPGA}}, pages = {{151--160}}, publisher = {{Springer}}, title = {{{Virtualizing Hardware with Multi-Context Reconfigurable Arrays}}}, doi = {{10.1007/b12007}}, volume = {{2778}}, year = {{2003}}, } @inproceedings{2422, abstract = {{Reconfigurable computing architectures aim to dynamically adapt their hardware to the application at hand. As research shows, the time it takes to reconfigure the hardware forms an overhead that can significantly impair the benefits of hardware customization. Multi-context devices are one promising approach to overcome the limitations posed by long reconfiguration times. In contrast to more traditional reconfigurable architectures, multi-context devices hold several configurations on-chip. On demand, the device can quickly switch to another context. In this paper we present a co-simulation environment to investigate design trade-offs for hybrid multi-context architectures. Our architectural model comprises a reconfigurable unit closely coupled to a CPU core. As a case study, we discuss the implementation of a FIR filter partitioned into several contexts. We outline the mapping process and present simulation results for single- and multi-context reconfigurable units coupled with both embedded and high-end CPUs.}}, author = {{Enzler, Rolf and Plessl, Christian and Platzner, Marco}}, booktitle = {{Proc. Int. Conf. on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA)}}, isbn = {{1-932415-05-X}}, keywords = {{Zippy, co-simulation}}, pages = {{174--180}}, publisher = {{CSREA Press}}, title = {{{Co-simulation of a Hybrid Multi-Context Architecture}}}, year = {{2003}}, } @inproceedings{13612, author = {{Walder, Herbert and Platzner, Marco}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE)}}, isbn = {{0769518702}}, pages = {{290--295}}, publisher = {{IEEE CS Press}}, title = {{{Online scheduling for block-partitioned reconfigurable devices}}}, doi = {{10.1109/date.2003.1253622}}, year = {{2003}}, } @inproceedings{13613, author = {{Walder, Herbert and Steiger, Christoph and Platzner, Marco}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium}}, isbn = {{0769519261}}, publisher = {{IEEE CS Press}}, title = {{{Fast online task placement on FPGAs: free space partitioning and 2D-hashing}}}, doi = {{10.1109/ipdps.2003.1213329}}, year = {{2003}}, } @inproceedings{13614, author = {{Walder, Herbert and Platzner, Marco}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA)}}, pages = {{284--287}}, publisher = {{CSREA Press}}, title = {{{Reconfigurable Hardware Operating Systems: From Design Concepts to Realizations}}}, year = {{2003}}, } @inproceedings{13615, author = {{Steiger, Christoph and Walder, Herbert and Platzner, Marco}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)}}, isbn = {{9783540408222}}, issn = {{0302-9743}}, pages = {{575--584}}, publisher = {{Springer}}, title = {{{Heuristics for Online Scheduling Real-Time Tasks to Partially Reconfigurable Devices}}}, doi = {{10.1007/978-3-540-45234-8_56}}, year = {{2003}}, } @inproceedings{13617, author = {{Steiger, Christoph and Walder, Herbert and Platzner, Marco and Thiele, Lothar}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings 24th IEEE International Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS)}}, isbn = {{0769520448}}, pages = {{252--235}}, publisher = {{IEEE CS Press}}, title = {{{Online scheduling and placement of real-time tasks to partially reconfigurable devices}}}, doi = {{10.1109/real.2003.1253269}}, year = {{2003}}, } @inproceedings{2423, abstract = {{Wearable computers are embedded into the mobile environment of the human body. A design challenge for wearable systems is to combine the high performance required for tasks such as video decoding with low energy consumption required to maximize battery runtimes and the flexibility demanded by the dynamics of the environment and the applications. In this paper, we demonstrate that reconfigurable hardware technology is able to answer this challenge. We present the concept and the prototype implementation of an autonomous wearable unit with reconfigurable modules (WURM). We discuss two experiments that show the uses of reconfigurable hardware in WURM: ASICs-on-demand and adaptive interfaces. Finally, we develop and evaluate task placement techniques used in the operating system layer of WURM.}}, author = {{Plessl, Christian and Enzler, Rolf and Walder, Herbert and Beutel, Jan and Platzner, Marco and Thiele, Lothar}}, booktitle = {{Proc. Int. Symp. on Wearable Computers (ISWC)}}, isbn = {{0-7695-1816-8}}, keywords = {{wearable computing}}, pages = {{215--222}}, publisher = {{IEEE Computer Society}}, title = {{{Reconfigurable Hardware in Wearable Computing Nodes}}}, doi = {{10.1109/ISWC.2002.1167250}}, year = {{2002}}, } @inproceedings{2424, abstract = {{ Recent generations of high-density and high-speed FPGAs provide a sufficient capacity for implementing complete configurable systems on a chip (CSoCs). Hybrid CPUs that combine standard CPU cores with reconfigurable coprocessors are an important subclass of CSoCs. With partially reconfigurable FPGAs, coprocessors can be loaded on demand while the CPU remains running. However, the lack of high-level design tools for partial reconfiguration makes practical implementations a challenging task. In this paper, we introduce a design flow to implement hybrid processors on Xilinx Virtex. The design flow is based on two techniques, virtual sockets and feed-through components, and can efficiently generate partial configurations from industry-quality cores. We discuss the design flow and present a fully operational audio streaming prototype to demonstrate its feasibility. }}, author = {{Dyer, Matthias and Plessl, Christian and Platzner, Marco}}, booktitle = {{Proc. Int. Conf. on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)}}, keywords = {{partial reconfiguration}}, pages = {{292--301}}, publisher = {{Springer}}, title = {{{Partially Reconfigurable Cores for Xilinx Virtex}}}, doi = {{10.1007/3-540-46117-5}}, volume = {{2438}}, year = {{2002}}, } @inproceedings{2425, abstract = {{ We present instance-specific custom computing machines for the set covering problem. Four accelerator architectures are developed that implement branch \& bound in 3-valued logic and many of the deduction techniques found in software solvers. We use set covering benchmarks from two-level logic minimization and Steiner triple systems to derive and discuss experimental results. The resulting raw speedups are in the order of four magnitudes on average. Finally, we propose a hybrid solver architecture that combines the raw speed of instance-specific reconfigurable hardware with flexible bounding schemes implemented in software. }}, author = {{Plessl, Christian and Platzner, Marco}}, booktitle = {{Proc. Int. Symp. on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM)}}, pages = {{163--172}}, publisher = {{IEEE Computer Society}}, title = {{{Custom Computing Machines for the Set Covering Problem}}}, doi = {{10.1109/FPGA.2002.1106671}}, year = {{2002}}, } @article{10651, author = {{Eisenring, Michael and Platzner, Marco}}, journal = {{The Journal of Supercomputing}}, number = {{2}}, pages = {{145--159}}, publisher = {{Kluwer Academic Publishers}}, title = {{{A Framework for Run-time Reconfigurable Systems}}}, doi = {{10.1023/a:1013627403946}}, volume = {{21}}, year = {{2002}}, } @inproceedings{13611, author = {{Walder, Herbert and Platzner, Marco}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA)}}, pages = {{24--30}}, publisher = {{CSREA Press}}, title = {{{Non-preemptive Multitasking on FPGAs: Task Placement and Footprint Transform}}}, year = {{2002}}, } @inproceedings{2428, abstract = {{ In this paper we present instance-specific accelerators for minimum-cost covering problems. We first define the covering problem and discuss a branch&bound algorithm to solve it. Then we describe an instance-specific hardware architecture that implements branch&bound in 3-valued logic and uses reduction techniques usually found in software solvers. Results for small unate covering problems reveal significant raw speedups. }}, author = {{Plessl, Christian and Platzner, Marco}}, booktitle = {{Proc. Int. Conf. on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA)}}, keywords = {{minimum covering, accelerator, funding-sundance}}, pages = {{85--91}}, publisher = {{CSREA Press}}, title = {{{Instance-Specific Accelerators for Minimum Covering}}}, year = {{2001}}, } @inproceedings{2432, abstract = {{In this paper, we present the analysis of applications from the domain of handheld and wearable computing. This analysis is the first step to derive and evaluate design parameters for dynamically reconfigurable processors. We discuss the selection of representative benchmarks for handhelds and wearables and group the applications into multimedia, communications, and cryptography programs. We simulate the applications on a cycle-accurate processor simulator and gather statistical data such as instruction mix, cache hit rates and memory requirements for an embedded processor model. A breakdown of the executed cycles into different functions identifies the most compute-intensive code sections - the kernels. Then, we analyze the applications and discuss parameters that strongly influence the design of dynamically reconfigurable processors. Finally, we outline the construction of a parameterizable simulation model for a reconfigurable unit that is attached to a processor core.}}, author = {{Enzler, Rolf and Platzner, Marco and Plessl, Christian and Thiele, Lothar and Tröster, Gerhard}}, booktitle = {{Reconfigurable Technology: FPGAs and Reconfigurable Processors for Computing and Communications III}}, keywords = {{benchmark}}, pages = {{135--146}}, title = {{{Reconfigurable Processors for Handhelds and Wearables: Application Analysis}}}, doi = {{10.1117/12.434376}}, volume = {{4525}}, year = {{2001}}, } @article{10713, author = {{Mencer, Oskar and Platzner, Marco and Morf, Martin and J. Flynn, Michael}}, journal = {{{IEEE} Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration ({VLSI}) Systems}}, number = {{1}}, pages = {{205--210}}, title = {{{Object-oriented domain specific compilers for programming FPGAs}}}, doi = {{10.1109/92.920835}}, volume = {{9}}, year = {{2001}}, } @misc{13463, author = {{Enzler, Rolf and Platzner, Marco}}, publisher = {{TELEMATIK, Zeitschrift des Telematik-Ingebieur-Verbandes 7(1)}}, title = {{{Dynamically Reconfigurable Processors}}}, year = {{2001}}, } @article{6507, author = {{Platzner, Marco}}, issn = {{0018-9162}}, journal = {{Computer}}, number = {{4}}, pages = {{58--60}}, publisher = {{Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)}}, title = {{{Reconfigurable accelerators for combinatorial problems}}}, doi = {{10.1109/2.839322}}, volume = {{33}}, year = {{2000}}, } @article{10606, author = {{Eisenring, Michael and Platzner, Marco}}, journal = {{IEE Proceedings -- Computers & Digital Techniques}}, pages = {{159--165}}, publisher = {{IET}}, title = {{{Synthesis of Interfaces and Communication in Reconfigurable Embedded Systems}}}, doi = {{10.1049/ip-cdt:20000496}}, volume = {{147}}, year = {{2000}}, } @article{10725, author = {{Platzner, Marco and Rinner, Bernhard and Weiss, Reinhold}}, journal = {{IEEE Intelligent Systems}}, number = {{2}}, pages = {{62--68}}, publisher = {{Institute of Electrical {\&} Electronics Engineers ({IEEE})}}, title = {{{Toward embedded qualitative simulation: a specialized computer architecture for QSim}}}, doi = {{10.1109/5254.850829}}, volume = {{15}}, year = {{2000}}, } @inproceedings{13609, author = {{Eisenring, Michael H. and Platzner, Marco}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Engineering of Reconfigurable Hardware/Software Objects (ENREGLE)}}, pages = {{151--157}}, publisher = {{CSREA Press}}, title = {{{An Implementation Framework for Run-time Reconfigurable Systems}}}, year = {{2000}}, } @inproceedings{13610, author = {{Eisenring, Michael and Platzner, Marco}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)}}, pages = {{565--574}}, publisher = {{Springer}}, title = {{{Optimization of Run-time Reconfigurable Embedded Systems}}}, year = {{2000}}, } @inproceedings{13607, author = {{Mencer, Oskar and Platzner, Marco}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS-32)}}, isbn = {{0769500013}}, publisher = {{IEEE CS Press}}, title = {{{Dynamic circuit generation for Boolean satisfiability in an object-oriented design environment}}}, doi = {{10.1109/hicss.1999.772883}}, year = {{1999}}, } @inproceedings{13608, author = {{Eisenring, Michael and Platzner, Marco and Thiele, Lothar}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)}}, isbn = {{9783540664574}}, issn = {{0302-9743}}, pages = {{205--214}}, publisher = {{Springer}}, title = {{{Communication Synthesis for Reconfigurable Embedded Systems}}}, doi = {{10.1007/978-3-540-48302-1_21}}, volume = {{1673}}, year = {{1999}}, } @article{10607, author = {{Platzner, Marco}}, journal = {{e&i Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik}}, pages = {{143--148}}, publisher = {{Springer}}, title = {{{Reconfigurable Computer Architectures}}}, volume = {{115}}, year = {{1998}}, } @article{10608, author = {{Platzner, Marco and Rinner, Bernhard}}, journal = {{International Journal of Computers & Their Applications}}, pages = {{106--116}}, publisher = {{ISCA}}, title = {{{Design and Implementation of a Parallel Constraint Satisfaction Algorithm}}}, volume = {{5}}, year = {{1998}}, } @misc{13464, author = {{Platzner, Marco and Rinner, Bernhard and Weiss, Reinhold}}, pages = {{106--107}}, publisher = {{Texas Instruments, The Elite Yearbook 1997 - Digital Signal Processing Solutions from Europe's leading Universities}}, title = {{{A Distributed Computer Architecture for Fast Qualitative Simulation }}}, year = {{1998}}, } @inproceedings{13606, author = {{Platzner, Marco and De Micheli, Giovanni}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL) }}, isbn = {{9783540649489}}, issn = {{0302-9743}}, pages = {{69--78}}, publisher = {{Springer }}, title = {{{Acceleration of satisfiability algorithms by reconfigurable hardware}}}, doi = {{10.1007/bfb0055234}}, year = {{1998}}, } @article{10609, author = {{Platzner, Marco and Rinner, Bernhard and Weiss, Reinhold}}, journal = {{e & i Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik}}, pages = {{13--18}}, publisher = {{Springer}}, title = {{{A Computer Architecture to Support Qualitative Simulation in Industrial Applications}}}, volume = {{114}}, year = {{1997}}, } @article{10724, author = {{Platzner, Marco and Rinner, Bernhard and Weiss, Reinhold}}, journal = {{Simulation Practice and Theory}}, number = {{7-8}}, pages = {{623--638}}, publisher = {{Elsevier}}, title = {{{Parallel qualitative simulation}}}, doi = {{10.1016/s0928-4869(97)00008-6}}, volume = {{5}}, year = {{1997}}, } @inproceedings{13603, author = {{Platzner, Marco and Peters, Liliane}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the SPIE: Conference on Parallel and Distributed Methods for Image Processing}}, title = {{{Fast Signature Segmentation on a Multi-DSP Architecture}}}, volume = {{3166}}, year = {{1997}}, } @inproceedings{13604, author = {{Röwekamp, Thomas and Platzner, Marco and Peters, Liliane }}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Signal Processing Applications & Technology (ICSPAT)}}, pages = {{829--833}}, title = {{{Specialized Architectures for Optical Flow Computation: A Performance Comparison of ASIC, DSP, and Multi-DSP}}}, year = {{1997}}, } @inproceedings{13602, author = {{Lind, Erich and Platzner, Marco and Rinner, Bernhard }}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Signal Processing Applications & Technology (ICSPAT)}}, title = {{{A Multi-DSP System with Dynamically Reconfigurable Processors}}}, year = {{1996}}, } @article{10610, author = {{Platzner, Marco and Rinner, Bernhard and Weiss, Reinhold}}, journal = {{J.UCS Journal of Universal Computer Science}}, pages = {{811--820}}, publisher = {{Springer}}, title = {{{Exploiting Parallelism in Constraint Satisfaction for Qualitative Simulation}}}, volume = {{12}}, year = {{1995}}, } @inproceedings{13469, author = {{Platzner, Marco and Rinner, Bernhard and Weiss, Reinhold }}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 3rd Euromicro Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing }}, pages = {{311--318}}, publisher = {{IEEE CS Press}}, title = {{{A Distributed Computer Architecture for Qualitative Simulation based on a Multi-DSP and FPGAs}}}, year = {{1995}}, } @inproceedings{13470, author = {{Brenner, Eugen and Ginthör-Kalcsics, Robert and Hranitzky, Robert and Platzner, Marco and Rinner, Bernhard and Steger, Christian and Weiss, Reinhold}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 5th Annual Texas Instruments TMS320 Educators Conference}}, title = {{{High-Performance Simulators Based on Multi-TMS320C40}}}, year = {{1995}}, } @inproceedings{13471, author = {{Friedl, Gerald and Platzner, Marco and Rinner, Bernhard}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the EURO-PAR'95 International Conference on Parallel Processing}}, pages = {{695--698}}, publisher = {{Springer International Publishing}}, title = {{{A Special-Purpose Coprocessor for Qualitative Simulation}}}, year = {{1995}}, } @inproceedings{13472, author = {{Platzner, Marco and Rinner, Bernhard and Weiss, Reinhold }}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the EUROSIM Congress}}, pages = {{231--236}}, publisher = {{Elsevier}}, title = {{{Parallel Qualitative Simulation}}}, year = {{1995}}, } @inproceedings{13473, author = {{Platzner, Marco and Rinner, Bernhard}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the PDCS International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems}}, pages = {{494--501}}, publisher = {{ISCA}}, title = {{{Improving Performance of the Qualitative Simulator QSIM - Design and Implementation of a Specialized Computer Architecture}}}, year = {{1995}}, }