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To fill the gap between increasing demand for reconfigurability and performance efficiency, CGRAs are seen to be an emerging platform. In this paper, a new architecture, QUKU, is described which uses a coarse-grained reconfigurable PE array (CGRA) overlaid on an FPGA. The low-speed reconfigurability of the FPGA is used to optimize the CGRA for different applications, whilst the high-speed CGRA reconfiguration is used within an application for operator re-use. We will demonstrate the dynamic reconfigurability of QUKU by porting Sobel and Laplacian kernel for edge detection in an image frame.
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Shukla, S., Bergmann, N.W., Becker, J. (2006). QUKU: A Fast Run Time Reconfigurable Platform for Image Edge Detection. In: Bertels, K., Cardoso, J.M.P., Vassiliadis, S. (eds) Reconfigurable Computing: Architectures and Applications. ARC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3985. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11802839_13
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