Reconfigurable Computing Reading List

Recommended for beginners: (Hartenstein 2001), (Bougard 2008), (Callahan 2000), (Cardoso 2010)

Architectures often cited in the literature: Garp, MorphoSys, ADRES, RaPiD, PipeRench. An overview of those architectures can be found in (Hartenstein 2001).

General RC Introduction

• (Kompton 2002) Reconfigurable Computing: A Survey of Systems and Software, in ACM Computing Surveys
• (Hartenstein 2001) A decade of reconfigurable computing: A visionary retrospective, in DATE [Recommended, Short]
  • Overview and comparison of many often-cited architectures, by the creator of KressArray.

Compilation for RC

• (Callahan 2000) Adapting software pipelining for reconfigurable computing, in CASES [Garp]
• (Mei 2003) Exploiting loop-level parallelism on coarse-grained reconfigurable architectures using modulo scheduling, in DATE [ADRES]
• (Cardoso 2010) Compiling for reconfigurable computing: A survey, in ACM Computing Surveys
  • Very long. Overview for both FPGA and CGRA compilation.
• (Weinhardt 2001) Pipeline vectorization, in TCAD
• (Park 2008) Edge-centric Modulo Scheduling for Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architectures, PACT.
• (Clark 2008) VEAL: Virtualized Execution Accelerator for Loops, in ISCA
  • Dynamic translation approach.

More about Architectures

• (Bougard 2008) A Coarse-Grained Array Accelerator for Software Defined Radio Baseband Processing, in IEEE Micro [ADRES]
• (Mei 2003) ADRES: An Architecture with Tightly Coupled VLIW Processor and Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Matrix

Runtime Binary Translation approach

• (Clark 2008) VEAL: Virtualized execution accelerator for loops, in ISCA
• (Beck 2005) Exploiting Java through binary translation for low power embedded reconfigurable systems
• (Beck 2008) Transparent Reconfigurable Acceleration for Heterogeneous Embedded Applications
• (Lysecky 2006) Warp processors
• (Bala 2000) Dynamo: a transparent dynamic optimization system
• (Stitt 2003) Dynamic hardware software partitioning: a first approach, in DAC
• (Stitt 2008) Traversal Caches: A First Step towards FPGA Acceleration, in CODES+ISSS

These are some extra...

• (Suganuma 2000) Overview of the IBM Java Just-in-Time Compiler
• (Suganuma 2001) A dynamic optimization framework for a Java just-in-time compiler
• (Arnold 2005) A Survey of Adaptive Optimization in Virtual Machines
• (Aycock 2003) A brief history of just-in-time

Background

On Compilation

• (Leupers 2010) A Short Introduction to Compilers (C Compilers for ASIPs), a book chapter
• (Rau 1994) Iterative Modulo Scheduling: An algorithm for software pipelining loops, in MICRO

On Low Power Design

• Power-efficient System Design by Panda et al., 2010, Springer