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Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs) enable ease of programmability and result in low development costs. They enable the ease of use specifically in reconfigurable computing applications. The smaller cost of compilation and reduced…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Amit Kulkarni , Dirk Stroobandt , Andre Werner , Florian Fricke , Michael Huebner

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

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

In this paper, the acceleration of algorithms using a design of a field programmable gate array (FPGA) as a prototype of a static dataflow architecture is discussed. The static dataflow architecture using operators interconnected by…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Jorge Luiz e Silva , Joelmir Jose Lopes , Bruno de Abreu Silva , Antonio Carlos Fernandes da Silva

Coarse-grained reconfigurable arrays (CGRAs) are domain-specific devices promising both the flexibility of FPGAs and the performance of ASICs. However, with restricted domains comes a danger: designing chips that cannot accelerate enough…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Jackson Woodruff , Thomas Koehler , Alexander Brauckmann , Chris Cummins , Sam Ainsworth , Michael F. P. O'Boyle

Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs) hold great promise as power-efficient edge accelerator, offering versatility beyond AI applications. Morpher, an open-source, architecture-adaptive CGRA design framework, is specifically designed…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Dhananjaya Wijerathne , Zhaoying Li , Tulika Mitra

Coarse-grained reconfigurable architectures aim to achieve both goals of high performance and flexibility. However, existing reconfigurable array architectures require many resources without considering the specific application domain.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Yoonjin Kim , Mary Kiemb , Chulsoo Park , Jinyong Jung , Kiyoung Choi

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) 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…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Zesong Jiang , Yuqi Sun , Qing Zhong , Mahathi Krishna , Deepak Patil , Cheng Tan , Jeff Zhang

With the cross-fertilization of applications and the ever-increasing scale of models, the efficiency and productivity of hardware computing architectures have become inadequate. This inadequacy further exacerbates issues in design…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Haojia Hui , Jiangyuan Gu , Xunbo Hu , Yang Hu , Leibo Liu , Shaojun Wei , Shouyi Yin

The next generation HPC and data centers are likely to be reconfigurable and data-centric due to the trend of hardware specialization and the emergence of data-driven applications. In this paper, we propose ARENA -- an asynchronous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Cheng Tan , Chenhao Xie , Tong Geng , Andres Marquez , Antonino Tumeo , Kevin Barker , Ang Li

An increasing number of researchers are finding use for nth-order gradient computations for a wide variety of applications, including graphics, meta-learning (MAML), scientific computing, and most recently, implicit neural representations…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Stefan Abi-Karam , Rishov Sarkar , Dejia Xu , Zhiwen Fan , Zhangyang Wang , Cong Hao

Graphs are essential for representing relationships in various domains, driving modern AI applications such as graph analytics and neural networks across science, engineering, cybersecurity, transportation, and economics. However, the size…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-04-05 William Shaddix , Mahyar Samani , Marjan Fariborz , S. J. Ben Yoo , Jason Lowe-Power , Venkatesh Akella

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

Dataflow scheduling decisions are of vital importance to neural network (NN) accelerators. Recent scalable NN accelerators support a rich set of advanced dataflow techniques. The problems of comprehensively representing and quickly finding…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Zhiyao Li , Mingyu Gao

The spatial control of material placement afforded by metal additive manufacturing (AM) has enabled significant progress in the development and implementation of compositionally graded alloys (CGAs) for spatial property variation in…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-06 Marshall D. Allen , Vahid Attari , Brent Vela , James Hanagan , Richard Malak , Raymundo Arróyave

We present HeLEx, a framework for determining the functional layout of heterogeneous spatially-configured elastic Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs). Given a collection of input data flow graphs (DFGs) and a target CGRA, the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Alan Jia Bao Du , Tarek S. Abdelrahman

Overlays have shown significant promise for field-programmable gate-arrays (FPGAs) as they allow for fast development cycles and remove many of the challenges of the traditional FPGA hardware design flow. However, this often comes with a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Mohamed S. Abdelfattah , David Han , Andrew Bitar , Roberto DiCecco , Shane OConnell , Nitika Shanker , Joseph Chu , Ian Prins , Joshua Fender , Andrew C. Ling , Gordon R. Chiu

Spatial dataflow architectures such as reconfigurable dataflow accelerators (RDA) can provide much higher performance and efficiency than CPUs and GPUs. In particular, vectorized reconfigurable dataflow accelerators (vRDA) in recent…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Alexander Rucker , Shiv Sundram , Coleman Smith , Matthew Vilim , Raghu Prabhakar , Fredrik Kjolstad , Kunle Olukotun

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