Dynamic Reconfigurable Architectures and Transparent Optimization Techniques

1. Introduction. 1.1 Challenges. 1.2 Main Motivations. 1.3 This Book. 2. Reconfigurable Systems. 2.1 Introduction. 2.2 Basic Principles. 2.3 How It Works. 2.4 Advantages of using Reconfigurable Logic. 2.5 Classification. 2.6 Directions. 3. Deployment of Reconfigurable Systems. 3.1 Introduction. 3.2 Examples.3.3 Recent Dataflow Architectures. 3.4 Summary and Comparative Tables. 4. Dynamic Optimization Techniques. 4.1 Introduction. 4.2 Binary Translation. 4.3 Reuse. 5. Dynamic Detection and Reconfiguration. 5.1 Warp Processing. 5.2 Configurable Compute Array. 5.3 Drawbacks. 6. The DIM Reconfigurable System. 6.1 Introduction. 6.2 The Reconfigurable Array in Details. 6.3 Translation, Reconfiguration and Execution. 6.4 The BT Algorithm in Details. 6.5 Case Studies. 6.6 DIM in Stack Machines. 6.7 On-Going and Future works. 7. Conclusions and Future Trends. 7.1 Introduction. 7.2 Decreasing the routing area of Reconfigurable Systems. 7.3 Measuring the impact of the OS in reconfigurable systems. 7.4 Reconfigurable systems to increase the Yield. 7.5 Study of the area overhead with technology scaling and future technologies. 7.6 Scheduling targeting to Low-Power. 7.7 Comparison against a Fine-Grain reconfigurable system. 7.8 Reconfigurable Systems Attacking Different levels of Instruction Granularity.