Reconfigurable Computing Architectures

Author

Tessier, Russell ; Pocek, Kenneth ; DeHon, Andre

Author_Institution

ECE Dept., Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA

Volume

103

Issue

3

fYear

2015

fDate

Mar-15

Firstpage

332

Lastpage

354

Abstract

Reconfigurable architectures can bring unique capabilities to computational tasks. They offer the performance and energy efficiency of hardware with the flexibility of software. In some domains, they are the only way to achieve the required, real-time performance without fabricating custom integrated circuits. Their functionality can be upgraded and repaired during their operational lifecycle and specialized to the particular instance of a task. We survey the field of reconfigurable computing, providing a guide to the body-of-knowledge accumulated in architecture, compute models, tools, run-time reconfiguration, and applications.

Keywords

field programmable gate arrays; reconfigurable architectures; body-of-knowledge; computational tasks; compute models; hardware energy efficiency; hardware performance efficiency; operational lifecycle; real-time performance; reconfigurable computing architectures; run-time reconfiguration; software flexibility; Computational modeling; Field programmable gate arrays; Logic gates; Product life cycle management; Program processors; Reconfigurable architectures; Field programmable gate arrays; reconfigurable architectures; reconfigurable computing; reconfigurable logic;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Proceedings of the IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9219

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JPROC.2014.2386883

Filename

7086414