conference paper Christian Plessl author 161530000-0001-5728-9982 Rolf Enzler author Herbert Walder author Jan Beutel author Marco Platzner author 398 Lothar Thiele author 518 department 78 department 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. IEEE Computer Society2002 wearable computing 0-7695-1816-810.1109/ISWC.2002.1167250 215-222 @inproceedings{Plessl_Enzler_Walder_Beutel_Platzner_Thiele_2002, title={Reconfigurable Hardware in Wearable Computing Nodes}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISWC.2002.1167250">10.1109/ISWC.2002.1167250</a>}, booktitle={Proc. Int. Symp. on Wearable Computers (ISWC)}, publisher={IEEE Computer Society}, author={Plessl, Christian and Enzler, Rolf and Walder, Herbert and Beutel, Jan and Platzner, Marco and Thiele, Lothar}, year={2002}, pages={215–222} } Plessl C, Enzler R, Walder H, Beutel J, Platzner M, Thiele L. Reconfigurable Hardware in Wearable Computing Nodes. In: <i>Proc. Int. Symp. on Wearable Computers (ISWC)</i>. IEEE Computer Society; 2002:215-222. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISWC.2002.1167250">10.1109/ISWC.2002.1167250</a> Plessl, Christian, et al. “Reconfigurable Hardware in Wearable Computing Nodes.” <i>Proc. Int. Symp. on Wearable Computers (ISWC)</i>, IEEE Computer Society, 2002, pp. 215–22, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISWC.2002.1167250">10.1109/ISWC.2002.1167250</a>. C. Plessl, R. Enzler, H. Walder, J. Beutel, M. Platzner, L. Thiele, in: Proc. Int. Symp. on Wearable Computers (ISWC), IEEE Computer Society, 2002, pp. 215–222. Plessl, Christian, Rolf Enzler, Herbert Walder, Jan Beutel, Marco Platzner, and Lothar Thiele. “Reconfigurable Hardware in Wearable Computing Nodes.” In <i>Proc. Int. Symp. on Wearable Computers (ISWC)</i>, 215–22. IEEE Computer Society, 2002. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISWC.2002.1167250">https://doi.org/10.1109/ISWC.2002.1167250</a>. C. Plessl, R. Enzler, H. Walder, J. Beutel, M. Platzner, and L. Thiele, “Reconfigurable Hardware in Wearable Computing Nodes,” in <i>Proc. Int. Symp. on Wearable Computers (ISWC)</i>, 2002, pp. 215–222. Plessl, C., Enzler, R., Walder, H., Beutel, J., Platzner, M., &#38; Thiele, L. (2002). Reconfigurable Hardware in Wearable Computing Nodes. In <i>Proc. Int. Symp. on Wearable Computers (ISWC)</i> (pp. 215–222). IEEE Computer Society. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISWC.2002.1167250">https://doi.org/10.1109/ISWC.2002.1167250</a> 24232018-04-17T15:13:50Z2022-01-06T06:56:13Z