Caching in Real-Time Reconfiguration Port Scheduling

Abstract

In reconfigurable systems, the concept of caching configurations can be employed to reduce the reconfiguration overhead, as already loaded configurations can be reused. In case reconfigurable systems are resources for real-time systems, caching may even improve schedulability, as tasks can be executed immediately. The real-time reconfiguration port scheduling of this work combines mono processor scheduling algorithms and parallel slot execution, which particularly allows us to benefit from caching. However, a comprehensive design of methods is required. We discuss concepts for introducing caching to this new way of real-time scheduling on partially reconfigurable devices.