Sequencing run-time reconfigured hardware with software

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Abstract
Run-Time Reconfigured systems offer additionalhardware resources to systems based on reconfigurableFPGAs. These systems, however, are often difficultto build and must tolerate substantial reconfigurationtimes. A processor based architecture has been builtto simplify the development of these systems by providingprogrammable control of hardware sequencingwhile retaining the performance of hardware. Configurationoverhead of this system is reduced by "caching"hardware on the reconfigurable ...