The vast design space of coarse-grained reconfigurable architectures complicates the design of optimized processors. However, a flexible architecture template and a retargetable simulator and compiler enable systematic architecture exploration that can lead to more efficient domain-specific architecture designs.
Citation:
Bingfeng Mei, Andy Lambrechts, Diederik Verkest, Jean-Yves Mignolet, Rudy Lauwereins, "Architecture Exploration for a Reconfigurable Architecture Template," IEEE Design and Test of Computers, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 90-101, Mar./Apr. 2005, doi:10.1109/MDT.2005.27