Scheduling Approaches for Accelerating Real-Time Tasks in Software-Hardware Codesign Paradigm

Reconfigurable systems are increasingly being employed in a large class of today’s heterogeneous real-time systems which often demand satisfaction of stringent timeliness constraints. However, executing a set of hard real-time applications on reconfigurable systems such that all timing constraints are satisfied while also allowing efficient resource utilization requires effective scheduling, mapping and admission control strategies. In case of hardware tasks the reconfigurable space can considered as partitioned into tiles, which can be mapped to the tasks based on logic requirement and execution deadline. The tradeoff between task throughput, resource and energy requirements can be suitably handled in the run time by considering suitable hardware variants of the tasks that can be mapped through full/partial reconfiguration. This lecture will brief on the preliminary concepts of task processing on FPGAs using soft and hard cores and the related architectural design. Scheduling strategies will also be introduced in regards to efficient mapping of tasks on reconfigurable cores both in full and partial reconfiguration domain. Co-sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society Chapter – IEEE Gujarat Section Speaker(s): Dr. Amlan Chakrabarti Agenda: Agendas for the event on”Scheduling Approaches for Accelerating Real-Time Tasks in Software-Hardware Codesign Paradigm”: – Introduction to software-hardware codesign paradigm and its importance in modern computing systems. – Overview of real-time systems and their characteristics, including the importance of meeting timing constraints for such systems. – The role of scheduling in real-time systems and the challenges involved in designing efficient scheduling algorithms. – A survey of existing scheduling approaches for real-time systems, including fixed-priority scheduling, dynamic priority scheduling, and other approaches. – Introduction to hardware acceleration and its potential for speeding up real-time tasks. – Overview of the integration of hardware acceleration into real-time systems and the benefits it offers – Discussion of software-hardware co-design techniques for optimizing the performance of real-time systems, including scheduling algorithms that leverage hardware acceleration. – Case studies of real-world systems that have successfully implemented software-hardware co-design techniques for real-time tasks. – Future directions and challenges Room: 101, Bldg: A, Nirma University, S G Highway , Ahmedabad – 382481, Gujarat, India, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, 382481