Honeycomb: an application-driven online adaptive reconfigurable hardware architecture

  • Authors:
  • Alexander Thomas;Michael Rückauer;Jürgen Becker

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut für Technik der Informationsverarbeitung, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Karlsruhe, Germany;Institut für Technik der Informationsverarbeitung, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Karlsruhe, Germany;Institut für Technik der Informationsverarbeitung, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Karlsruhe, Germany

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing - Special issue on Selected Papers from the Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems Design (SBCCI 2011)
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Since the introduction of the first reconfigurable devices in 1985 the field of reconfigurable computing developed a broad variety of architectures from fine-grained to coarse-grained types. However, the main disadvantages of the reconfigurable approaches, the costs in area, and power consumption, are still present. This contribution presents a solution for application-driven adaptation of our reconfigurable architecture at register transfer level (RTL) to reduce the resource requirements and power consumption while keeping the flexibility and performance for a predefined set of applications. Furthermore, implemented runtime adaptive features like online routing and configuration sequencing will be presented and discussed. A presentation of the prototype chip of this architecture designed in 90 nm standard cell technology manufactured by TSMC will conclude this contribution.