Blocks, Towards Energy-efficient, Coarse-grained Reconfigurable Architectures (Paperback, 1st ed. 2022)

This book describes a new, coarse-grained reconfigurable architecture (CGRA), called Blocks, and puts it in the context of computer architectures, and in particular of other CGRAs. The book starts with an extensive evaluation of historic and existing CGRAs and their strengths and weaknesses. This also leads to a better understanding and new definition of what distinguishes CGRAs from other architectural approaches. The authors introduce Blocks as unique due to its separate programmable control and data paths, allowing light-weight instruction decode units to be arbitrarily connected to one or more functional units (FUs) over a statically configured interconnect. The discussion includes an explanation of how to model architectures, resulting in an area and energy model for Blocks. The accuracy of this model is evaluated against fully implemented architectures, showing that although it is three orders of magnitude faster than synthesis the error margin is very acceptable. The book concludes with a case study on a real System-on-Chip, including a RISC architecture, the Blocks CGRA and peripherals.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	August 2022
First published:	2022
Authors:	Mark Wijtvliet • Henk Corporaal • Akash Kumar
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	220
Edition:	1st ed. 2022
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-079776-8
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Electronics & communications engineering > Electronics engineering > Circuits & components Books > Computing & IT > Computer hardware & operating systems > Computer architecture & logic design > General
LSN:	3-03-079776-7
Barcode:	9783030797768

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