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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2012
Edmund B. Nightingale, Redmond, WA (US);
Brian A. Lamacchia, Seattle, WA (US);
Edmund B. Nightingale, Redmond, WA (US);
Brian A. LaMacchia, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Application code is analyzed to determine if a hardware library could accelerate its execution. In particular, application code can be analyzed to identify calls to application programming interfaces (APIs) or other functions that have a hardware library implementation. The code can be analyzed to identify the frequency of such calls. Information from the hardware library can indicate characteristics of the library, such as its size, power consumption and FPGA resource usage. Information about the execution pattern of the application code also can be useful. This information, along with information about other concurrent processes using the FPGA resources, can be used to select a hardware library to implement functions called in the application code.