Reconfigurable computing: architectures and design methods
Tim Todman, George Anthony Constantinides, Steven J. E. Wilton, Oskar Mencer, Wayne W. Luk, Peter Y. K. Cheung · IEE Proceedings - Computers and Digital Techniques · 2005
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.