Name
Abstract | ||
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The high degree of freedom in the design of coarse-grained reconfigurable arrays imposes new challenges on their description and modeling. In this paper, we introduce an architecture description language targeted to describe coarse-grained reconfigurable architecture templates. It comprises innovative key features to allow fast modeling and analysis of such architectures, i.e.: representation of processing element array (ir)regularities, and flexible and concise description of interconnection network. We demonstrate that the proposed language enables a formal validation of the described template, and it eases the analysis and estimation of hardware costs earlier in the design phase. Finally, we show how we automatically generate a SystemC-based simulator of the described architecture. Our results suggest that the semantic and technical innovations of the proposed architecture description language may have a positive impact on the productivity of the design phase. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2009 | 10.1109/TVLSI.2008.2002429 | VLSI) Systems, IEEE Transactions |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
hardware description languages,reconfigurable architectures,SystemC-based simulator,architecture description language,coarse-grained reconfigurable architecture,coarse-grained reconfigurable arrays,degree of freedom,interconnection network,processing element array irregularity representation,Custom instruction,domain specific architecture,hardware description languages,reconfigurable hardware | Database-centric architecture,Computer architecture,Applications architecture,Computer science,Software architecture description,Electronic engineering,Systems architecture,Reference architecture,Enterprise architecture framework,Reconfigurable computing,Architecture description language | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
17 | 9 | 1063-8210 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
11 | 0.72 | 18 |
Authors | ||
4 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Julio A. de Oliveira Filho | 1 | 11 | 0.72 |
| Stephan Masekowsky | 2 | 11 | 0.72 |
| Thomas Schweizer | 3 | 11 | 0.72 |
| W. Rosenstiel | 4 | 15 | 4.15 |