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Reconfigurable computing: architectures and design methods

2005; Volume: 152; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1049/ip-cdt

1359-7027

Tim Todman, George A. Constantinides, Steven J. E. Wilton, Oskar Mencer, Wayne Luk, Peter Y. K. Cheung,

Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques

Reconfigurable computing is becoming increasingly attractive for many applications. This survey covers two aspects of reconfigurable computing: architectures and design methods. The paper includes recent advances in reconfigurable architectures, such as the Alters Stratix II and Xilinx Virtex 4 FPGA devices. The authors identify major trends in general-purpose and special-purpose design methods. It is shown that reconfigurable computing designs are capable of achieving up to 500 times speedup and 70% energy savings over microprocessor implementations for specific applications.