The goal of the Totem project is to reduce the design time and effort in the creation of a custom reconfigurable architecture. The architectures that are created by Totem are based upon the applications and constraints specified by the designer. Since the custom architecture is optimized for a particular set of applications and constraints, the designs are smaller in area and perform better than a standard FPGA while retaining enough flexibility to support the specified application set, with the possibility to support applications not foreseen by the designer.
Citation:
Shawn Phillips, Akshay Sharma, Scott Hauck, "Automating the Layout of Reconfigurable Subsystems Via Template Reduction," fccm, pp.340-341, 12th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM'04), 2004