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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…

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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…

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

Coarse-grained Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs) are domain-agnostic accelerators that enhance the energy efficiency of resource-constrained edge devices. The CGRA landscape is diverse, exhibiting trade-offs between performance, efficiency, and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Zhaoying Li , Pranav Dangi , Chenyang Yin , Thilini Kaushalya Bandara , Rohan Juneja , Cheng Tan , Zhenyu Bai , Tulika Mitra

At the intersection between traditional CPU architectures and more specialized options such as FPGAs or ASICs lies the family of reconfigurable hardware architectures, termed Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs). CGRAs are composed…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Maxime Henri Aspros , Juan Sapriza , Giovanni Ansaloni , David Atienza

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

Domain-specific accelerators are used in various computing systems ranging from edge devices to data centers. Coarse-grained reconfigurable arrays (CGRAs) represent an architectural midpoint between the flexibility of an FPGA and the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Taeyoung Kong , Kalhan Koul , Priyanka Raina , Mark Horowitz , Christopher Torng

Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRA) are promising edge accelerators due to the outstanding balance in flexibility, performance, and energy efficiency. Classic CGRAs statically map compute operations onto the processing elements (PE)…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Dan Wu , Peng Chen , Thilini Kaushalya Bandara , Zhaoying Li , Tulika Mitra

Coarse-Grain Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs) represent emerging low-power architectures designed to accelerate Compute-Intensive Loops (CILs). The effectiveness of CGRAs in providing acceleration relies on the quality of mapping: how…

Coarse Grained Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs) present both high flexibility and efficiency, making them well-suited for the acceleration of intensive workloads. Nevertheless, a key barrier towards their widespread adoption is posed by CGRA…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Yuxuan Wang , Cristian Tirelli , Giovanni Ansaloni , Laura Pozzi , David Atienza

Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs) are specialized accelerators commonly employed to boost performance in workloads with iterative structures. Existing research typically focuses on compiler or architecture optimizations aimed at…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Xiangfeng Liu , Zhe Jiang , Anzhen Zhu , Xiaomeng Han , Mingsong Lyu , Qingxu Deng , Nan Guan

Transformers have revolutionized deep learning with applications in natural language processing, computer vision, and beyond. However, their computational demands make it challenging to deploy them on low-power edge devices. This paper…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Rohit Prasad

Stencils represent a class of computational patterns where an output grid point depends on a fixed shape of neighboring points in an input grid. Stencil computations are prevalent in scientific applications engaging a significant portion of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Jesmin Jahan Tithi , Fabrizio Petrini , Hongbo Rong , Andrei Valentin , Carl Ebeling

Coarse-grain reconfigurable architectures (CGRAs) are gaining traction thanks to their performance and power efficiency. Utilizing CGRAs to accelerate the execution of tight loops holds great potential for achieving significant overall…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Elad Hadar , Yoav Etsion

Reconfigurable computing offers a good balance between flexibility and energy efficiency. When combined with software-programmable devices such as CPUs, it is possible to obtain higher performance by spatially distributing the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Daniel Vazquez , Jose Miranda , Alfonso Rodriguez , Andres Otero , Pascuale Davide Schiavone , David Atienza

Streaming coarse-grained reconfgurable array (CGRA) is a promising architecture for data/computing-intensive applications because of its fexibility, high throughput and efcient memory system. However,when accelerating sparse CNNs, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Xiaobing Ni , Mengke Ge , Jiaheng Ruan , Song Chen , Yi Kang

While coarse-grained reconfigurable arrays (CGRAs) have emerged as promising programmable accelerator architectures, pipelining applications running on CGRAs is required to ensure high maximum clock frequencies. Current CGRA compilers…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Jackson Melchert , Yuchen Mei , Kalhan Koul , Qiaoyi Liu , Mark Horowitz , Priyanka Raina

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

Integer Linear Programming (ILP) is widely used for solving real-world optimization problems, including network routing, map routing, and traffic scheduling. However, ILP algorithms are sparse and branch-intensive, making them inefficient…

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