Dynamic Reconfiguration in Real-Time Systems, 2012
Energy, Performance, and Thermal Perspectives
Embedded Systems Series, Vol. 4

Given the widespread use of real-time multitasking systems, there are tremendous optimization opportunities if reconfigurable computing can be effectively incorporated while maintaining performance and other design constraints of typical applications. The focus of this book is to describe the dynamic reconfiguration techniques that can be safely used in real-time systems. This book provides comprehensive approaches by considering synergistic effects of computation, communication as well as storage together to significantly improve overall performance, power, energy and temperature. 

Introduction.- Modeling of Real-Time and Reconfigurable Systems.- Dynamic Cache Reconfiguration in Real-Time Systems.- Energy Optimization of Cache Hierarchy in Multicore Real-Time Systems.- Energy-Aware Scheduling with Dynamic Voltage Scaling.- System-wide Energy Optimization with DVS and DCR.- Temperature- and Energy-Constrained Scheduling.- Conclusions.

WeixunWang is a software engineer in Amazon.com, Seattle,WA. He received his B.E. degree in software engineering from the Software Institute, Nanjing University, China, in 2007, and a Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from the University of Florida in 2011.  His research interests include energy-aware computing, design automation of embedded systems, computer architecture, reconfigurable architectures and real-time scheduling. He has published more than 10 papers in these fields. He is a member of IEEE.

Prabhat Mishra is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) at the University of Florida. His research interests include design automation of embedded systems, hardware/software verification, VLSI CAD, and low-power reconfigurable architectures. He received his B.E. from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, in 1994, M.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1996, and Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine, in 2004 – all in Computer Science. Prior to joining University of Florida, he spent several years in various semiconductor and design automation companies, including Intel, Motorola, Synopsys and Texas Instruments. He has published two books (Springer 2005 and MK 2008), nine book chapters and more than 80 research articles in premier journals and conferences. His research has been recognized by several awards including the NSF CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, two best paper awards (VLSI Design 2011 and CODES+ISSS 2003), several best paper award nominations, and 2004 EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award from the European Design Automation Association. He has also received the 2007 International Educator of the Year Award from the UF College of Engineering for his significant international research and teaching contributions. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Design & Test of Computers (D&T), Guest Editor of IEEE Transactionson Comput