A quick safari through the reconfiguration jungle

  • Authors:
  • Patrick Schaumont;Ingrid Verbauwhede;Kurt Keutzer;Majid Sarrafzadeh

  • Affiliations:
  • IMEC, Leuven, Belgium;UCLA Dept of EE, Los Angeles, CA;UCB Dept of EECS, Berkeley, CA;UCLA Dept of CS, Los Angeles, CA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 38th annual Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Cost effective systems use specialization to optimize factors such as power consumption, processing throughput, flexibility or combinations thereof. Reconfigurable systems obtain this specialization at run-time. System reconfigurable has a vertical, a horizontal and a time dimension. We organize this design space as the reconfiguration hierarchy, and discuss the design methods that deal with it. Finally, we survey existing commercial platforms that support reconfiguration and situate them in the reconfiguration jungle.