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The International Symposium on Applied Reconfigurable Computing (ARC) is an annual forum for the discussion and dissemination of research, notably applying the Reconfigurable Computing (RC) concept to real-world problems. The first edition of ARC took place in 2005, and in 2024, ARC celebrated its 20th edition. During those 20 years, the field of reconfigurable computing saw a tremendous growth in its underlying technology. ARC contributed very significantly to the presentation and dissemination of new ideas, innovative applications, and fruitful discussions, all of which have resulted in the shaping of novel lines of research. Here, we present selected papers from the first 20 years of ARC, that we believe represent the corpus of work and reflect the ARC spirit by covering a broad spectrum of RC applications, benchmarks, tools, and architectures. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025.

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Modern hardware accelerators, such as FPGAs, allow offloading large regions of C/C++ code in order to improve the execution time and/or the energy consumption of software applications. An outstanding challenge with this approach, however, is solving the Hardware/Software (Hw/Sw) partitioning problem. Given the increasing complexity of both the accelerators and the potential code regions, one needs to adopt a holistic approach when selecting an offloading region by exploring the interplay between communication costs, data usage patterns, and target-specific optimizations. To this end, we propose representing a C application as an extended task graph (ETG) with flexible granularity, which can be manipulated through the merging and splitting of tasks. This approach involves generating a task graph overlay on the program's Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) that maps tasks to functions and the flexible granularity operations onto inlining/outlining operations. This maintains the integrity and readability of the original source code, which is paramount for targeting different accelerators and enabling code optimizations, while allowing the offloading of code regions of arbitrary complexity based on the data patterns of their tasks. To evaluate the ETG representation and its compiler, we use the latter to generate ETGs for the programs in Rosetta and MachSuite benchmark suites, and extract several metrics regarding data communication, task-level parallelism, and dataflow patterns between pairs of tasks. These metrics provide important information that can be used by Hw/Sw partitioning methods.

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Self-adaptive Systems (SaS) are becoming increasingly important for adapting to dynamic environments and for optimizing performance on resource-constrained devices. A practical approach to achieving self-adaptability involves using a Pareto-Front (PF) to store the system's hyper-parameters and the outcomes of hyperparameter combinations. This paper proposes a novel method to approximate a PF, offering a configurable number of solutions that can be adapted to the device's limitations. We conducted extensive experiments across various scenarios, where all PF solutions were replaced, and real world scenarios were performed using actual measurements from a Human Activity Recognition (HAR) system. Our results show that our method consistently outperforms previous methods, mainly when the maximum number of PF solutions is in the order of hundreds. The effectiveness of our method is most apparent in real-case scenarios where it achieves, when executed in a Raspberry Pi 5, up to 87% energy consumption reduction and lower execution times than the second-best algorithm. Additionally, our method ensures a more evenly distributed solution across the PF, preventing the high concentration of solutions. © 2024 IEEE.

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Plants gather and process information about their surroundings to make decisions that prioritize their well-being while considering the environment. These decisions are conveyed through electrical signals within and between cells, mainly in the form of action and variation potentials, in response to stimuli, including mechanical vibrations, changes in temperature, light intensity, and humidity. Although the ability of some plants, such as the Mimosa pudica, to react to sudden environmental stimuli (e.g., touch) is well known, their long-term electrical response under slow environmental changes remains not fully understood. Here, a multi-source monitoring system has been developed to collect and store electrical signals from the plant Mimosa pudica, and surrounding environmental temperature and humidity, over a period of approximately 5 days. A realtime dashboard shows the environmental temperature and variation potential (VP) from Mimosa pudica. The VP mimics the environmental temperature changes, with an associated delay. Our long-term physiological observations suggest that environmental temperature sensing in the plant Mimosa pudica can be monitored and is likely driven by bioelectricity.