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Coarse-grained reconfigurable arrays (CGRAs) have attracted growing interest because they exhibit performance and energy efficiency competitive with ASICs while maintaining flexibility similar to FPGAs. These properties make CGRAs…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Sabrina Yarzada , Christopher Torng

The ever-increasing complexity and operational diversity of modern Neural Networks (NNs) have caused the need for low-power and, at the same time, high-performance edge devices for AI applications. Coarse Grained Reconfigurable…

AI acceleration has been dominated by GPUs, but the growing need for lower latency, energy efficiency, and fine-grained hardware control exposes the limits of fixed architectures. In this context, Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Arturo Urías Jiménez

The architecture of a coarse-grained reconfigurable array (CGRA) interconnect has a significant effect on not only the flexibility of the resulting accelerator, but also its power, performance, and area. Design decisions that have complex…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Jackson Melchert , Keyi Zhang , Yuchen Mei , Mark Horowitz , Christopher Torng , Priyanka Raina

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have recently been increasingly used for highly-parallel processing of compute intensive tasks. This paper introduces an FPGA hardware platform architecture that is PC-based, allows for fast…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Andreas Weisensee , Darran Nathan

Emerging low-powered architectures like Coarse-Grain Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs) are becoming more common. Often included as co-processors, they are used to accelerate compute-intensive workloads like loops. The speedup obtained is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Cristian Tirelli , Laura Pozzi

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are widely used in deep learning applications, e.g. visual systems, robotics etc. However, existing software solutions are not efficient. Therefore, many hardware accelerators have been proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Sasindu Wijeratne , Sandaruwan Jayaweera , Mahesh Dananjaya , Ajith Pasqual

Modern physics experiments often utilize FPGA-based systems for real-time data acquisition. Integrated analog electronics demand for complex calibration routines. Furthermore, versatile configuration and control of the whole system is a key…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Nick Karcher , Richard Gebauer , Robin Bauknecht , Rainer Illichmann , Oliver Sander

Modern computing workloads commonly involve matrix-matrix multiplication (mmul) as a core computing pattern. Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs) can flexibly and efficiently support it, since they combine operation-level…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Yuxuan Wang , María José Belda , Fernando Castro , Katzalin Olcoz , David Atienza , Giovanni Ansaloni

Quantum computing is emerging as an important (but radical) technology that might take us beyond Moore's law for certain applications. Today, in parallel with improving quantum computers, computer scientists are relying heavily on quantum…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Artur Podobas

Structured Cartesian grids are a fundamental component in numerical simulations. Although these grids facilitate straightforward discretization schemes, their na\"{i}ve use in sparse domains leads to excessive memory overhead and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Fan Gu , Xiangyu Hu

Digital Signal Processing functions are widely used in real time high speed applications. Those functions are generally implemented either on ASICs with inflexibility, or on FPGAs with bottlenecks of relatively smaller utilization factor or…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-06-04 Amitabha Sinha , Soumojit Acharyya , Suranjan Chakraborty , Mitrava Sarkar

Coarse-Grain Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs) provide flexibility and energy efficiency in accelerating compute-intensive loops. Existing compilation techniques often struggle with scalability, unable to map code onto large CGRAs. To address…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Cristian Tirelli , Rodrigo Otoni , Laura Pozzi

Large Language Models (LLMs) demand substantial computational resources, resulting in high energy consumption on GPUs. To address this challenge, we focus on Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs) as an effective alternative that…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Takuto Ando , Yu Eto , Ayumu Takeuchi , Yasuhiko Nakashima

Reconfigurable computing refers to the use of processors, such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), that can be modified at the hardware level to take on different processing tasks. A reconfigurable computing platform describes the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Darran Nathan , Kelvin Lim Mun Kit , Kelly Choo Hon Min , Philip Wong Jit Chin , Andreas Weisensee

The software configurable processor finds best use in the embedded systems. These processors have onchip logic like FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) and thus can be configured to implement custom hardware functionality. The digital…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Ganesh Prabhu , Steevan Rodrigues , Niranjan Chiplunkar , Niranjan U. C

The use of FPGAs for efficient graph processing has attracted significant interest. Recent memory subsystem upgrades including the introduction of HBM in FPGAs promise to further alleviate memory bottlenecks. However, modern multi-channel…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Xinyu Chen , Yao Chen , Feng Cheng , Hongshi Tan , Bingsheng He , Weng-Fai Wong

Efficient and real time segmentation of color images has a variety of importance in many fields of computer vision such as image compression, medical imaging, mapping and autonomous navigation. Being one of the most computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-09 Roopal Nahar , Akanksha Baranwal , K. Madhava Krishna

The almost unlimited possibilities to customize the logic in an FPGA are one of the main reasons for the versatility of these devices. Partial reconfiguration exploits this capability even further by allowing to replace logic in predefined…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-08-19 Marvin Fuchs , Hendrik Krause , Timo Muscheid , Lukas Scheller , Luis E. Ardila-Perez , Oliver Sander

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in a wide range of applications. However, deeper CNN models, which are usually computation consuming, are widely required for complex Artificial…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Chaoyang Zhu , Kejie Huang , Shuyuan Yang , Ziqi Zhu , Hejia Zhang , Haibin Shen