Flexible Routing Architecture Generation for Domain-Specific Reconfigurable Subsystems
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Reconfigurable hardware is ideal for use in Systems-on-a-Chip, as it provides hardware speeds as well as the benefits of post-fabrication modification. However, not all applications are equally suited to any one reconfigurable architecture. Therefore, the Totem Project focuses on the automatic generation of customized reconfigurable hardware. This paper details our first attempts at the design of algorithms for automatic generation of customized flexible routing architectures. We show that these algorithms provide results with a low area overhead compared to the custom-designed RaPiD routing architecture, as well as the flexibility needed to handle some application modifications.
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