Preface

摘要

Reconfigurable computing platforms offer increased performance gains and energy efficiency through coarse-grained and fine-grained parallelism coupled with their ability to implement custom functional, storage, and interconnect structures. As such, they have been gaining wide acceptance in recent years, spanning the spectrum from highly specialized custom controllers to general-purpose high-end programmable computing systems. The flexibility and configurability of these platforms, coupled with increasing technology integration, have enabled sophisticated platforms that facilitate both static and dynamic reconfiguration, rapid system prototyping, and early design verification. Configurability is emerging as a key technology for substantial product life-cycle savings in the presence of evolving product requirements, standards, and interface specifications.