Module Allocation for Dynamically Reconfigurable Systems

The synthesis of dynamically recon gurable systems poses some new challenges for high-level synthesis tools. In this paper, we deal with the task of module allocation as this step has a direct in uence on the performance of the dynamically recon gurable design. We propose a con guration bundling driven module allocation technique that can be used for component clustering. The basic idea is to group con gurable logic together properly so that a given con guration can do as much work as possible, allowing a greater portion of the task to be completed between recon gurations. Our synthesis methodology addresses the issues of minimizing recon guration overhead by maintaining a global view of the resource requirements at all times during the high-level synthesis process.