Macroalgae use flexibility and reconfiguration, i.e. the alteration of shape, size and orientation as water velocity increases, to reduce the hydrodynamic forces imposed in the wave-swept rocky intertidal zone. Quantifying the effects of flexibility on hydrodynamic performance is difficult, however, because the mechanisms of reconfiguration vary with water velocity and the relationship between ...

Title of thesis: TOPOLOGY RECONFIGURATION WITH SUCCESSIVE APPROXIMATIONS Degree Candidate: Eswaran Baskaran Degree and Year: Master of Science, Fall 2006 Thesis directed by: Dr. Christopher Davis Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Maryland Recent technologies have enabled the formation of point-to-point directional wireless networks that are capable of dy...

Two different interfaces, namely the JTAG and SelectMAP interfaces, have been proposed for controlling and managing partial reconfiguration of SRAM-based Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FGPAs). Each of these interfaces provides distinct advantages in terms of area overhead and reconfiguration latency. In this paper, two corresponding sets of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are develop...

The dynamic reconfiguration of the interconnection network is an advanced feature of some multicomputers to reduce the communication overhead. Up to now, the work carried out in this field has focused on static switching, i.e., the network changes its topology before starting the execution of a phase of an application program and then it remains constant throughout the phase execution. However,...

Run-time reconfiguration (RTR) of FPGAs is mainly done using the configuration interface. However, for a certain group of designs, RTR using the shift register functionality of the LUTs is a much faster alternative than conventional RTR using the ICAP. This method requires the creation of reconfiguration chains connecting the run-time reconfigurable LUTs (SRL). In this paper, we develop and eva...

In this paper, experiments are conducted in order to quantitatively evaluate the tradeoffs between design complexity and area overhead, reconfiguration flexibility, and reconfiguration latency of two reconfiguration interfaces, i.e. SelectMAP and JTAG. The results show that the SelectMAP interface is highly suitable when reconfiguration latency needs to be kept to a minimum at the expense of a ...

This project looks at the problem of creating an online distributed control method to solve the reconfiguration problem in reconfigurable robotics. We look at breaking down the global reconfiguration task into local tasks that can be performed robustly by the individual modules in order to achieve the global reconfiguration task. This is done by the modules first learning local reconfiguration ...

We prove universal reconfiguration (i.e., reconfiguration between any two robotic systems with the same number of modules) of 2-dimensional lattice-based modular robots by means of a distributed algorithm. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first known reconfiguration algorithm that applies in a general setting to a wide variety of particular modular robotic systems, and holds for both s...

Hyperreconfigurable architectures adapt their reconfiguration abilities during run time in order to achieve fast dynamic reconfiguration. Models for such architectures have been proposed that change their ability for reconfiguration during hyperreconfiguration steps and in ordinary reconfiguration steps reconfigure the actual contexts for a computation within the limits that have been set by th...

Few FPGAs support creation of partially reconfigurable systems when compared to traditional systems based on total reconfiguration. This allows dynamic change of the functionalities hosted on the device when needed and while the rest of the system continues its working. Runtime partial reconfiguration of FPGA is an attractive feature which offers countless benefits across multiple industries. X...