flemming.c@sundance.com
Sundance.com will bring FlexTiles hardware and its toolchain
FlexTiles is a 3D stacked chip with a manycore layer and a reconfigurable layer. This heterogeneity brings a high level of flexibility in adapting the architecture to the targeted application domain for performance and energy efficiency.
A virtualisation layer on top of a kernel hides the heterogeneity and the complexity of the manycore and fine-tunes the mapping of an application at runtime. The virtualisation layer provides self-adaptation capabilities by dynamically relocation of application tasks to software on the manycore or to hardware on the reconfigurable area. This self-adaptation is used to optimise load balancing, power consumption, hot spots and resilience to faulty modules.