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ReconOS: An Operating System for Dynamically Reconfigurable Hardware

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In this chapter, we present the operating system ReconOS, which extends the concept of multithreaded programming to reconfigurable logic. ReconOS aims to provide hardware cores with the same services as the software threads of contemporary operating systems, thereby transferring the flexibility, portability and reusability of the established multithreaded programming model from software to reconfigurable hardware.

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  1. Computer Engineering Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany

    Enno Lübbers & Marco Platzner

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  1. Universität Paderborn, Warburger Str. 100, Paderborn, 33098, Germany

    Marco Platzner

  2. LS Informatik 12, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Am Weichselgarten 3, Erlangen, 91058, Germany

    Jürgen Teich

  3. TU Kaiserslautern, Erwin-Schrödinger-Str., Kaiserslautern, 67663, Germany

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Lübbers, E., Platzner, M. (2010). ReconOS: An Operating System for Dynamically Reconfigurable Hardware. In: Platzner, M., Teich, J., Wehn, N. (eds) Dynamically Reconfigurable Systems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3485-4_13

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