Rainbow: An Operating System for Software-Hardware Multitasking on Dynamically Partially Reconfigurable FPGAs

<table class="table-group" width="800px"><tr class="fig-image" id="a"><td><img alt="789134.fig.001a" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/ijrc/volume-2013/789134/figures/789134.fig.001a.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(a) </b>Traditional OS and coprocessor-based FPGA system</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><img alt="789134.fig.001b" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/ijrc/volume-2013/789134/figures/789134.fig.001b.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(b) </b>Rainbow-based SW-HW multitasking FPGA system</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<table>OS architecture model: Traditional versus Rainbow-extended.</table>

International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing

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Figure 1: Rainbow: An Operating System for Software-Hardware Multitasking on Dynamically Partially Reconfigurable FPGAs 