Reconfigurable computing brings immense flexibility to on-chip processing while network-on-chip has improved flexibility in on-chip communication. Integrating these two areas of research reaps the benefits of both and represents the promising future of multiprocessor systems-on-chip.

Dynamic Reconfigurable Network-on-Chip Design: Innovations for Computational Processing and Communication is the one of the first compilations written to demonstrate this future for network -on-chip design. Through dynamic and creative research into questions ranging from integrating reconfigurable computing techniques, to task assigning, scheduling and arrival, to designing an operating system to take advantage of the computing and communication flexibilities brought about by run-time reconfiguration and network-on-chip, this book represents a complete source of the techniques and applications for reconfigurable network-on-chip necessary for understanding of future of this field.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Administration of Reconfigurable NoCs
Leveraging reconfiguration techniques
Low-power network-on-chip
Network-on-chip design flow
NoC-based Infrastructures
Operating system design
Programming models for the processing elements
Reconfigurable computing techniques
Reconfiguring the Network-on-Chip processing elements
Task Scheduling

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Leading researchers present cutting-edge solutions meeting a variety of unique challenges for multicore embedded software like real time, security, safety, reliability, swap, energy efficiency, area consumption and heterogeneity.

– Reiner Hartenstein, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany

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Editor/Author Biographies

Jih-Sheng Shen received his B.S. and his M.S. in Computer Science and Information Engineering from the I-Shou University and the National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, ROC, in 2003 and 2004, respectively. His M.S. thesis was on the design and implementation of on-chip crossroad communication architectures for low power embedded systems. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at the National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, ROC. His research interests include the theories and the architectures of reconfigurable systems, machine learning strategies, Network-on-Chip (NoC) designs, encoding methods for minimizing crosstalk interferences and dynamic power consumption.

Pao-Ann Hsiung Ph.D., received his B.S. in Mathematics and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, in 1991 and 1996, respectively. From 1996 to 2000, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC. From February 2001 to July 2002, he was an assistant professor and from August 2002 to July 2007 he was an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan, ROC. Since August 2007, he has been a full professor. Dr. Hsiung was the recipient of the 2001 ACM Taipei Chapter Kuo-Ting Li Young Researcher for his significant contributions to design automation of electronic systems. Dr. Hsiung was also a recipient of the 2004 Young Scholar Research Award given by National Chung Cheng University to five young faculty members per year. Dr. Hsiung is a senior member of the IEEE, a senior member of the ACM, and a life member of the IICM. He has been included in several professional listings such as Marquis' Who's Who in the World, Marquis' Who's Who in Asia, Outstanding People of the 20th Century by International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England, Rifacimento International's Admirable Asian Achievers (2006), Afro/Asian Who's Who, and Asia/Pacific Who's Who. Dr. Hsiung is an editorial board member of the International Journal of Embedded Systems (IJES), Inderscience Publishers, USA; the International Journal of Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (IJMUE), Science and Engineering Research Center (SERSC), USA; an associate editor of the Journal of Software Engineering (JSE), Academic Journals, Inc., USA; an editorial board member of the Open Software Engineering Journal (OSE), Bentham Science Publishers, Ltd., USA; an international editorial board member of the International Journal of Patterns (IJOP). Dr. Hsiung has been on the program committee of more than 50 international conferences. He served as session organizer and chair for PDPTA'99, and as workshop organizer and chair for RTC'99, DSVV'2000, and PDES'2005. He has published more than 170 papers in international journals and conferences. He has taken an active part in paper refereeing for international journals and conferences. His main research interests include reconfigurable computing and system design, multi-core programming, cognitive radio architecture, System-on-Chip (SoC) design and verification, embedded software synthesis and verification, real-time system design and verification, hardware-software codesign and coverification, and component-based object-oriented application frameworks for real-time embedded systems.

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