Abstract:
Reconfigurable Computing marks a revolutionary and hot topic that bridges the
gap between the separate worlds of hardware and software design. The key feature
of reconfigurable computing is its groundbreaking ability to perform computations
in hardware to increase performance while retaining the flexibility of a software
solution. Reconfigurable computers serve as affordable, fast, and accurate tools for
developing designs ranging from single chip architectures to multi-chip and
embedded systems. Given the architecture and design flexibility, reconfigurable
computing has catalyzed the progress in hardware-software code sign technology
and a vast number of application areas such as scientific computing, biological
computing, artificial intelligence, signal processing, security computing and
control oriented design. We give an overview of the hardware architectures of
reconfigurable computing machines, and the software that targets these machines,
such as compilation tools. Also, we consider the issues involved in run-time
reconfigurable systems, which re-use the configurable hardware during program
execution
