As general-purpose processors have hit the power wall and chip fabrication cost escalates
alarmingly, coarse-grained reconfigurable architectures (CGRAs) are attracting increasing …

This paper provides an overview of low-power techniques for field-programmable gate
arrays (FPGAs). It covers system-level design techniques and device-level design …

Top-Down VLSI Design: From Architectures to Gate-Level Circuits and FPGAs represents a
unique approach to learning digital design. Developed from more than 20 years teaching …

Algorithms for computational imaging and computer vision are rapidly evolving, and
hardware must follow suit: the next generation of image signal processors (ISPs) must be …

Spatial architecture is a high-performance architecture that uses control flow graphs and
data flow graphs as the computational model and producer/consumer models as the …

Multi-core architectures are increasingly being adopted in the design of emerging complex
embedded systems. Key issues of designing such systems are on-chip interconnects …

This paper presents a heterogeneous reconfigurable cell array, designed for high-
throughput baseband processing of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. To …

Field Programmable Gate Arrays FPGAs are highly desirable for implementation of digital
systems due to their flexibility, programmability and low end product life cycle. In more than …

Proceeding miniaturization in the VLSI circuits continues to pose challenges to the
conventionally used synchronous design style in microprocessors. These include the …

Wireless internet access technologies have significant market potential, especially the
WiMAX protocol which can offer data rate of tens of Mbps. A significant demand for …