S. Guyetant from CEA-List is going to present a paper into the french-speaking SYMPA08 conference, held in Fribourg, Switzerland (http://gridgroup.tic.hefr.ch/renpar/).

The paper, entitled "Predictive configuration service for heterogeneous reconfigurable multicore platform" shows the use of the PCM in the presented Morpheus platform.

Abstract: "This article describes a reconfiguration management service by predictive pre-fetch useful for multicore architectures composed of heterogenous reconfigurable cores. The goal is to hide reconfiguration latencies due to large sized bitstream transfers, therefore getting a higher dynamicity of reconfiguration. We present the implementation of the prefetch service and its functionnal validation. The architecture of the european Morpheus project is presented as an example for this validation: using simplified application graphs, we show how to hide the reconfiguration overhead."

L. Lagadec from UBO will present a paper entitled  "Chaine de programmation pour architecture hétérogène reconfigurable" (CAD tool for reconfigurable heterogeneous architecture) it shows the use of the CDFG intermediate format in the Morpheus platform (Spatial Design).

Abstract: To take advantage of the innovative heterogeneous reconfigurable systems on chip architectures, new software tools are required.
Based on a computing model, a software chain must allow to migrate from a high level specification to an hardware configuration coupled with a data transfer control. This paper proposes a solution in the form of a complete chain including: (1) a computation model, (2) a portable data structure allowing the integration of third-party tools to consitute a complete software chain, and (3) a low level generic backend performing the applicative synthesis in a reconfigurable scope.