The case for reconfigurable hardware in wearable computing

被引：27

作者：

Plessl, Christian ^{[1
]}

Enzler, Rolf ^{[2
]}

Walder, Herbert ^{[1
]}

Beutel, Jan ^{[1
]}

Platzner, Marco ^{[1
]}

Thiele, Lothar ^{[1
]}

Troester, Gerhard ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Comp Engn & Networks Lab TIK, ETH Zentrum Off ETZ G81, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland

[2] Swiss Fed Inst Technol, Elect Lab, Zurich, Switzerland

来源：

PERSONAL AND UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING | 2003年 / 7卷 / 05期

基金：

瑞士国家科学基金会;

关键词：

Body area computing system; Embedded systems; Field-programmable gate arrays; Reconfigurable hardware; Wearable computing;

D O I：

10.1007/s00779-003-0243-x

中图分类号：

TP [自动化技术、计算机技术];

学科分类号：

0812 [计算机科学与技术];

摘要：

Wearable computers are embedded into the mobile environment of their users. A design challenge for wearable systems is to combine the high performance required for tasks such as video decoding with the low energy consumption required to maximise battery runtimes and the flexibility demanded by the dynamics of the environment and the applications. In this paper, we demonstrate that reconfigurable hardware technology is able to answer this challenge. We present the concept and the prototype implementation of an autonomous wearable unit with reconfigurable modules (WURM). We discuss experiments that show the uses of reconfigurable hardware in WURM: ASICs-on-demand and adaptive interfaces. Finally, we present an experiment with an operating system layer for WURM. © 2003 Springer-Verlag London Limited.

引用

页码：299 / 308

页数：10

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