Mapping Tasks to a Dynamically Reconfigurable Coarse Grained Array

Abstract

Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architectures (CGRAs) have become popular in recent times as the increased transistor densities have enabled greater integration of increasingly complex “compute cores”. These devices pack massive compute power and can be effectively used to build efficient solutions for applications which have a significant degree of parallelism. In many cases, these CGRAs are also partially reconfigurable. Clearly to make effective use of these highly “parallel compute platforms”, a good mapping flow is required to map the parallelism that is present in a target application.