A COMPUTING PLATFORM, A RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE DEVICE AND A METHOD FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY EXECUTING PROCESSES ON DYNAMICALLY RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE DEVICE, SUCH AS AN FPGA, AS WELL AS INSTRUCTION SET PROCESSORS, SUCH AS A CPU, AND A RELATED COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM.

摘要

Computing platform, comprising a reconfigurable hardware device such as a Field Programmable Gate Array, FPGA, and at least one processor arranged for communicating with the reconfigurable hardware device, an operating system arranged to be executed on the at least one processor and arranged for managing execution of at least one application comprising a plurality of processes, wherein the computing platform further comprises a reconfiguring manager arranged for dynamically reconfiguring the reconfigurable hardware device at run-time based on processes to be executed and instantaneous available reconfigurable hardware device resources, wherein the reconfiguring being physically altering the reconfigurable hardware device resources by programming the hardware device, and a task manager arranged for queue communicating with the reconfiguring manager and for scheduling the processeson either one of the at least one processor and the reconfigurable hardware device.