可重构系统中基于MMU的软硬件任务间通信方法的研究.PDFVIP

第5卷 第1期 72 中国科技论文在线 Sciencepaper Online 2010 年 1 月 可重构系统中基于 MMU 的 软硬件任务间通信方法的研究 邓庆绪，金 曦，李岳霖 （东北大学信息科学与工程学院，沈阳 110004 ） 摘 要： 由现场可编程门阵列(FPGA)和CPU构成的动态可重构混合系统具有计算性能高、灵活性强、适用范围广等 优点，它的出现使硬件与软件的界限变得模糊，让软件拥有了硬件的高性能，硬件具备了软件的灵活性。但是由于硬 件任务不支持程序上下文切换，不具有虚拟内存机制，不能够唤醒系统服务，混合软硬件任务的运行使得程序的虚拟 和系统软件的可迁移性降低。提出了一种基于存储管理单元(MMU) 的软硬件任务间通信方法，通过引入一种基于MMU 思想的虚拟地址映射机制，在硬件中实现了描述MMU进行虚拟地址映射行为的模块，使硬件任务同软件任务一样具 有虚拟地址，并利用这种机制实现了软硬件任务之间的通信。 关键词：可重构；MMU ；软硬件通信；通信机制 中图分类号：TP316.4 文献标志码：A 文章编号：1673－7180(2010)01 －0072 －4 A MMU-based communication mechanism for dynamic reconfigurable systems Deng Qingxu ，Jin Xi ，Li Yuelin (College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110004, China) Abstract: The reconfigurable system blended by field programmable gate array (FPGA) and CPU bears the characters such as high computing performance, flexibility and wide adaptation, which blurs the confinement between hardware and software, and mixes the high performance of hardware with software, besides the flexibility of software with that of hardware. Due to the lack of execution context, virtual memory abstraction and the ability of invoking system services, the portability of hardware applications are still low. A new mechanism based on virtual memory for hardware applications is introduced, and a hardware model is used to implement the behavior of memory management unit (MMU), which makes hardware applications communicate in virtual memory. This kind of mechanism is used to fulfill the communication between hardware and software ap