Software Development Environment for Run-time Reconfigurable System-on-Chip

This paper gives an overview of an innovative architecture for a run-time reconfigurable co-processor that could be used for rapid system prototyping. The user makes use of our application modeling language named PACO in order to fully exploit the features of the platform. Also, in further detail, we discuss our just-in-time (JIT) compiler that prepares the user application to be executed partly on a soft-core processor and partly on a run-time reconfigurable processing unit (RPU). The JIT compiler decides which portions of the code could execute faster in hardware (i.e. on the RPU) and which should execute in software. This will drastically improve the execution time of computationally intensive algorithms