Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

Collaboration EADS IW, and Eurocopter

The subject deals with dynamic reconfigurable system design for avionic test applications. It is motivated by the need of methodologies and tools for the design of high-performance applications on dynamic reconfigurable computing systems. A complete methodology takes the reconfigurability of the hardware as an essential design concept and proposes the necessary mechanisms to fully exploit those capabilities at runtime. A set of tools must provide high-quality designs with improved designer productivity, which guarantees consistency with the initial requirements for adaptability and for the final implementation. This methodology allows designers to easily implement a system specification on a platform that includes general purpose processors dynamically combined with multiple accelerators running on an FPGA.