Introducing a Multi-Agent Strategy for Designing Reconfigurable Systems to Increase Their Flexibility and Lifetime

One of the prominent features of the reconfigurable systems is flexibility. The flexibility of these systems depends largely on how they are reconfigured. There are many methods for reconfiguration that are divided into static reconfiguration, partial dynamic reconfiguration, and full dynamic reconfiguration. Of the proposed methods, the methods that can be reconfigured online are of particular importance. In this paper, using the redistributive properties of the systems, we designed these types of systems based on the organization of multi-agent systems. The proposed method introduces an intelligent reconfigurable system that changes the configuration of the system by the interaction of the agents with each other. One of the important goals of this new method is to extend the life-time of the reconfigurable system. In this paper, the proposed method is simulated using VHDL hardware description language and its synthesis is done using Design Compiler software. The simulation results show that the service life-time of the reconfigurable system is increased depending on the number of resources consumed on the chip design and the system also has good flexibility due to its intelligence and reconfigurability at runtime. Our results show that maximum usage of the logic cells on system has decreased by 1.05 to 4.23 times than transmap method. So it causes to increase the life time of the system. Our proposed method has data transfer overhead between agents that our results show 1458, 1218 and 770 bits for 32 bit ALU, 64 to 6 encoder and 64 bit barrel shifter respectively.