Design for ReConfigurability: An Electronic System Level Methodology to Exploit Reconfigurable Platforms

The presented Ph.D. project deals with the definition of an Electronic System-Level methodology, and the development of related prototype tools, for the exploitation of FPGA with the Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration feature. The goal of the project is to provide a Design for the ReConfigurability approach able to identify, at design-time, a set of system configurations that allow satisfying functional and non-functional requirements. Such configurations are then exploited, at run-time, by a system manager that is also able to take into account the reconfiguration cost to fully evaluate pro and cons of such a process. While the proposed Ph.D. project is still under development, its current status is described highlighting the planned works.