Name
Abstract | ||
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Summary form only given. Coarse-grain reconfigurable systems offer high performance and energy-efficiency, provided an efficient run-time reconfiguration mechanism is available. Using an embedded software vantage point, we define three levels of reconfigurability for such systems, each with a different degree of coupling between embedded software and reconfigurable hardware. We classify reconfigurable systems starting with tightly-coupled coprocessors and evolving to processor networks. This results in a gradual increase of energy-efficiency when compared to software-only systems, at the cost of increasing programming complexity. Using several sample applications including signal-, crypto-, and network-processing acceleration units, we demonstrate energy-efficiency improvements of 12 times over software for tightly-coupled systems up to 84 times for network-on-chip systems. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2004 | 10.1109/IPDPS.2004.1303110 | IPDPS |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
coprocessors,embedded systems,integrated software,reconfigurable architectures,system-on-chip,coarse-grain reconfigurable system,embedded software integration,energy-efficiency improvement,network-on-chip system,network-processing acceleration unit,processor network,programming complexity,run-time reconfiguration mechanism,tightly-coupled coprocessor | Computer architecture,Reconfigurability,System on a chip,Embedded software,Computer science,Parallel computing,Software,Coprocessor,Programming complexity,Control reconfiguration,Reconfigurable computing | Conference |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
0-7695-2132-0 | 16 | 1.06 |
References | Authors | |
4 | 4 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patrick Schaumont | 1 | 16 | 1.06 |
| Kazuo Sakiyama | 2 | 16 | 1.40 |
| Alireza Hodjat | 3 | 16 | 1.06 |
| Ingrid Verbauwhede | 4 | 19 | 4.83 |