@article {IOPORT.06015564,
    author       = {Zain-ul-Abdin and Svensson, Bertil},
    title        = {Occam-pi for programming of massively parallel reconfigurable architectures.},
    year         = {2012},
    journal      = {International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing},
    volume       = {2012},
    issn         = {1687-7195},
    pages        = {Article ID 504815, 17 p.},
    publisher    = {Hindawi Publishing Corporation, New York, NY},
    doi          = {10.1155/2012/504815},
    abstract     = {Summary: Massively parallel reconfigurable architectures, which offer massive parallelism coupled with the capability of undergoing run-time reconfiguration, are gaining attention in order to meet the increased computational demands of high-performance embedded systems. We propose that the occam-pi language is used for programming of the category of massively parallel reconfigurable architectures. The salient properties of the occam-pi language are explicit concurrency with built-in mechanisms for interprocessor communication, provision for expressing dynamic parallelism, support for the expression of dynamic reconfigurations, and placement attributes. To evaluate the programming approach, a compiler framework was extended to support the language extensions in the occam-pi language and a backend was developed to target the Ambric array of processors. We present two case-studies; DCT implementation exploiting the reconfigurability feature of occam-pi and a significantly large autofocus criterion calculation based on the dynamic parallelism capability of the occam-pi language. The results of the implemented case studies suggest that the occam-pi-language-based approach simplifies the development of applications employing run-time reconfigurable devices without compromising the performance benefits.},
    identifier   = {06015564},
}