Part II. Programming Reconfigurable Systems
As suggested in the Introduction, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and reconfigurable architectures have both the postfabrication programmability of software and the spatial parallelism of hardware. To fully exploit them, we need models and programming approaches that support the software’s programmability, including infrastructure and runtime support to allow the configuration to change over time. In addition to temporal reprogrammability, the reconfigurable programming systems must simultaneously deal with spatial issues normally associated only with hardware (e.g., physical placement of computations and timing of functional units).
To illustrate how we can program reconfigurable systems, the ...
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