Perspectives on custom computing
Wayne W. Luk, Henry Styles · 2002
Custom computing involves customising computations for one or more applications in a given implementation technology. We describe a framework for customising designs using appropriate libraries, compilers, validation facilities, application programming interfaces and front-end tools. The development of custom architectures, data formats and operations is presented. We show how circuits can be customised at run time to adapt to changes in the operating conditions. Graphics examples are used throughout the paper to illustrate our approach.