Contents of the presentation

The contribution from the MORPHEUS project was focused on the global toolset. This technical presentation introduced the MORPHEUS project, illustrating its goal to implect partnment a reconfigurable architecture chip and related toolset and listing the projeers. It presented the MORPHEUS execution model showing the system architecture made of reconfigurable processing elements, memories, general purpose processor, configuration manager and interconnection infrastructure. The presentation analyzed also the data flows for computation, control, configuration and reconfiguration. A programming model was presented where the user can model in C language the accelerated tasks. The programming environment is based on two parts 1) the sequential C-based description of the application 2) the graphical parallel description of the accelerated function (plus the C kernels). All main parts of the flow have been described in detail: the retargetable compilation based on the MOLEN paradigm, the control of reconfiguration added to eCos OS and the synthesis of accelerated functions from SPEAR/CASCADE and MADEO.