A Communication Aware Online Task Scheduling Algorithm for FPGA-Based Partially Reconfigurable Systems

In this paper, we propose an efficient online task scheduling algorithm which targets 2D FPGA area partitioning model and takes into account the data dependency and the data communications 1) among hardware tasks and 2) between hardware tasks and external devices which have not been explicitly investigated in previous work. In the experiment with 10000 workloads, the evaluation result shows that our proposed scheduling algorithm is about 20 × faster than the comparable approach.