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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…

Programmability, performance portability, and resource efficiency have emerged as critical challenges in harnessing complex and diverse architectures today to obtain high performance and energy efficiency. While there is abundant research,…

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The architecture of a coarse-grained reconfigurable array (CGRA) processing element (PE) has a significant effect on the performance and energy efficiency of an application running on the CGRA. This paper presents an automated approach for…

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Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs) offer high performance and energy efficiency across domains, yet design remains difficult due to a vast, interdependent space and costly manual iteration. We present MACO, an open-source…

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With the end of both Dennard's scaling and Moore's law, computer users and researchers are aggressively exploring alternative forms of computing in order to continue the performance scaling that we have come to enjoy. Among the more salient…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Artur Podobas , Kentaro Sano , Satoshi Matsuoka

While GPUs dominate massively parallel computing through the single-instruction, multiple-thread (SIMT) programming model, their underlying single-instruction, multiple-data (SIMD) execution incurs substantial energy overhead from frequent…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jiayi Wang , Ang Da Lu , Zhichen Zeng , Ang Li

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…

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As modern Coarse Grain Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs) grow in size, efficient utilization of the available fabric by a single application becomes increasingly difficult. Existing CGRA mappers either fail to utilize the available fabric or…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Agamemnon Kyriazis , Panagiotis Miliadis , Dimitris Theodoropoulos , Nectarios Koziris , Dionisios Pnevmatikatos

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…

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…

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With the emerging big data applications of Machine Learning, Speech Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, and DNA Sequencing in recent years, computer architecture research communities are facing the explosive scale of various data…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-12-14 Chao Wang , Wenqi Lou , Lei Gong , Lihui Jin , Luchao Tan , Yahui Hu , Xi Li , Xuehai Zhou

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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Deep neural networks (DNNs) offer plenty of challenges in executing efficient computation at edge nodes, primarily due to the huge hardware resource demands. The article proposes HYDRA, hybrid data multiplexing, and runtime layer…

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Coarse-Grain Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs) are emerging low-power architectures aimed at accelerating compute-intensive application loops. The acceleration that a CGRA can ultimately provide, however, heavily depends on the quality of the…

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In this paper, we propose a methodology for partitioning and mapping computational intensive applications in reconfigurable hardware blocks of different granularity. A generic hybrid reconfigurable architecture is considered so as the…

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Hardware acceleration of database query processing can be done with the help of FPGAs. In particular, they are partially reconfigurable during runtime, which allows for the runtime adaption of the hardware to a variety of queries.…

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FPGAs are increasingly being deployed in the cloud to accelerate diverse applications. They are to be shared among multiple tenants to improve the total cost of ownership. Partial reconfiguration technology enables multi-tenancy on FPGA by…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Ahsan Javed Awan , Fidan Aliyeva

Modern embedded and cyber-physical systems require every day more performance, power efficiency and flexibility, to execute several profiles and functionalities targeting the ever growing adaptivity needs and preserving execution…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Carlo Sau , Tiziana Fanni , Claudio Rubattu , Luigi Raffo , Francesca Palumbo

We present the Pluggable Distributed Resource Allocator (PDRA), a middleware for distributed computing in heterogeneous mobile robotic networks. PDRA enables autonomous robotic agents to share computational resources for computationally…

Coarse-grained reconfigurable architectures (CGRAs) are programmable logic devices with large coarse-grained ALU-like logic blocks, and multi-bit datapath-style routing. CGRAs often have relatively restricted data routing networks, so they…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Matthew J. P. Walker , Jason H. Anderson