A Survey of coarse-grain reconfigurable architectures and cad tools basic definitions, critical design issues and existing coarse-grain reocnfigurable systems

Abstract

According to the granularity of configuration, reconfigurable systems are classified in two categories, which are the fine-and coarse-grain ones. The purpose of this chapter is to study the features of coarse-grain reconfigurable systems, to examine their advantages and disadvantages, to discuss critical design issues that must be addressed during their development, and to present representative coarse-grain reconfigurable systems that have been proposed in the literature. © 2008 Springer.