PipeRench: a reconfigurable architecture and compiler
Goldstein, S.C.; Schmit, H.; Budiu, M.; Cadambi, S.; Moe, M.; Taylor, R.R.
Computer
Volume 33, Issue 4, Apr 2000 Page(s):70 - 77
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/2.839324
Summary:With the proliferation of highly specialized embedded computer
systems has come a diversification of workloads for computing devices.
General-purpose processors are struggling to efficiently meet these
applications' disparate needs, and custom hardware is rarely feasible.
According to the authors, reconfigurable computing, which combines the
flexibility of general-purpose processors with the efficiency of custom
hardware, can provide the alternative. PipeRench and its associated
compiler comprise the authors' new architecture for reconfigurable
computing. Combined with a traditional digital signal processor,
microcontroller or general-purpose processor, PipeRench can support a
system's various computing needs without requiring custom hardware. The
authors describe the PipeRench architecture and how it solves some of
the pre-existing problems with FPGA architectures, such as logic
granularity, configuration time, forward compatibility, hard constraints
and compilation time
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