@PHDTHESIS\{IMM2007-05494,
    author       = "K. Wu",
    title        = "Reconfigurable Architectures: from Physical Implementation to Dynamic Behavoir Modelling",
    year         = "2007",
    school       = "Informatics and Mathematical Modelling, Technical University of Denmark, {DTU}",
    address      = "Richard Petersens Plads, Building 321, {DK-}2800 Kgs. Lyngby",
    type         = "",
    note         = "Supervised by Prof. Jan Madsen, {IMM,} {DTU}.",
    url          = "http://www2.compute.dtu.dk/pubdb/pubs/5494-full.html",
    abstract     = "This dissertation focuses on the dynamic behavior of the reconfigurable architectures. We start with a survey of the existing work with the aim of categorizing the current research and identifying the future trends. The survey discusses the design issues of the reconfigurable architectures, the run-time management strategies and the design methodologies.

The second part of our work focuses on the study of commercial FPGAs that support the dynamic partial reconfiguration. This work grants us a better understanding of the limit and the potential of the main-stream commercial {FPGA,} and justifies the necessity of employing more advanced technologies in order to enable the realization of highly efficient reconfigurable architectures.

The third part of our study is carried out on {ADRES,} a coarse-grained datapath-coupled reconfigurable architecture. The study on {ADRES} shows that Multi-threading not only is feasible for reconfigurable architectures, but greatly improves the architecture scalability as well.

Our concluding study proposes a simulation framework for coprocessor-coupled reconfigurable architectures, namely {COSMOS}. The {COSMOS} simulation framework comprises a generic application model and an architecture model, the combination of which captures the dynamic behavior of the reconfigurable architectures. Our framework is a tool for studying the run-time management strategies and for experimenting the design space exploration of the reconfigurable architectures, and offers a means of evaluating various other works on a common ground."
}