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.0027a" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/ijrc/volume-2013/789134/figures/789134.fig.0027a.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(a) </b>Rainbow—case of long waiting time (RR locked, timeout = 0)</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><img alt="789134.fig.0027b" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/ijrc/volume-2013/789134/figures/789134.fig.0027b.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(b) </b>Rainbow—case of short waiting time (RR locked, timeout = large value)</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="c"><td><img alt="789134.fig.0027c" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/ijrc/volume-2013/789134/figures/789134.fig.0027c.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(c) </b>ReconOS—case of long and short waiting time</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<table>Rainbow versus ReconOS (blocked HW task case).</table>

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Figure 27: Rainbow: An Operating System for Software-Hardware Multitasking on Dynamically Partially Reconfigurable FPGAs 