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

Reconfigurable architectures have gained popularity in recent years as they allow the
design of energy-efficient accelerators. Fine-grain fabrics (eg FPGAs) have traditionally …

Energy consumed for transferring data across the processor memory hierarchy constitutes a
large fraction of total system energy consumption, and this fraction has steadily increased …

With the end of both Dennard's scaling and Moore's law, computer users and researchers
are aggressively exploring alternative forms of computing in order to continue the …

High-level synthesis (HLS) has been widely adopted as it significantly improves the
hardware design productivity and enables efficient design space exploration (DSE). Existing …

Demand for low-power data processing hardware continues to rise inexorably. Existing
programmable and" general purpose" solutions (eg. SIMD, GPGPUs) are insufficient, as …

Coarse-grain reconfigurable arrays (CGRAs) can achieve much higher performance and
efficiency than general-purpose cores, approaching the performance of a specialized design …

Ultra-low-power (ULP) devices are becoming pervasive, enabling many emerging sensing
applications. Energy-efficiency is paramount in these applications, as efficiency determines …

With slowing technology scaling, specialized accelerators are increasingly attractive
solutions to continue expected generational scaling of performance. However, in order to …

Emerging sensing applications create an unprecedented need for energy efficiency in
programmable processors. To achieve useful multi-year deployments on a small battery or …