The document summarizes the rationale, innovations, aims, and outline of a thesis on runtime core allocation management for 2D self partially and dynamically reconfigurable systems. The key points are: - The problem of providing runtime management support for 2D partial and dynamic reconfiguration, especially core placement decisions. - The innovative contributions include a fast and flexible solution that supports different scenarios and placement policies with low complexity. - The aims are to support different scenarios, policies, and designer intervention while being fast compared to related work and providing high quality placements. - The outline covers topics like context definition, motivations, the complete workflow, specific contributions, area constraints definition, the proposed solution, and results.

1. BY Massimo Morandi [email_address] Thesis committee: John Lillis (Chair), Donatella Sciuto, Mitchell Theys UIC Thesis Defense: May 9 2008 Runtime Core Allocation Management for 2D Self Partially and Dynamically Reconfigurable Systems

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35. The Online Placement Algorithm The whole processing of a Core is completed in linear time

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