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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…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2011-11-09 M. D. Galanis , A. Milidonis , G. Theodoridis , D. Soudris , C. E. Goutis

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

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) 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

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 well known method C-Slow Retiming (CSR) can be used to automatically convert a given CPU into a multithreaded CPU with independent threads. These CPUs are then called streaming or barrel processors. System Hyper Pipelining (SHP) adds a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-08-31 Tobias Strauch

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

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

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

Designing accelerators for resource- and power-constrained applications is a daunting task. High-level Synthesis (HLS) addresses these constraints through resource sharing, an optimization at the HLS binding stage that maps multiple…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Iulian Brumar , Rodrigo Rocha , Alex Bernat , Devashree Tripathy , David Brooks , Gu-Yeon Wei

This paper proposes an application mapping algorithm, BandMap, for coarse-grained reconfigurable array (CGRA), which allocates the bandwidth in PE array according to the transferring demands of data, especially the data with high spatial…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Xiaobing Ni , Jiaheng Ruan , Mengke Ge , Wendi Sun , Song Chen , Yi Kang

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

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

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 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

Complex Graph Patterns (CGPs), which combine pattern matching with relational operations, are widely used in real-world applications. Existing systems rely on monolithic architectures for CGPs, which restrict their ability to integrate…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Bingqing Lyu , Xiaoli Zhou , Longbin Lai , Yufan Yang , Yunkai Lou , Wenyuan Yu , Jingren Zhou

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

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

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

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