Authors: Thomas Lenart, Henrik Svensson, Viktor Öwall

Journal: IEEE (2008)

Institution: Lund university

Research Areas: Method development

Summary: The use of coarse-grain reconfigurable architectures(CGRA) is a suitable alternative for hardware acceleration in manyapplication areas, including digital holographic imaging. Authors propose a CGRA-based system with an array of processing and memory cells, which communicate using a local and a global communication network, and a stream memory controller to manage data transfers to external memory. They present a SystemC-based exploration environment (SCENIC) and methodology used to construct and evaluate systems containing reconfigurable architectures. A case study illustratesthe advantages of rapid system-level exploration to find and solve bottlenecks in complex designs prior to RTL description.