Special Section on Reconfigurable Systems

摘要

Rapid advances of field programmable devices have made the research field of reconfigurable systems important and widespread. Instead of customized SoCs (System-on-a Chip), reconfigurable FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Array) have been utilized in various types of embedded systems. Even the field of supercomputing, FPGAs have become a major player. Partial and dynamic reconfiguration has become a common design choice rather than challenging techniques. Also, coarse grained reconfigurable architectures have been embedded into real consumer devices as a flexible low power accelerators. Also, C-level programming using the HLS (High Level Synthesis) has become popular first for the reconfigurable devices. Important techniques on reconfigurable systems are widely spread to application, system software, design tools, computer architecture and device technology.