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Wijtvliet et al., 2021 - Google Patents

Concept of the Blocks Architecture

Wijtvliet et al., 2021

Document ID
105734788812198508
Author
Wijtvliet M
Corporaal H
Kumar A
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Blocks, Towards Energy-efficient, Coarse-grained Reconfigurable Architectures

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CGRAs traditionally use a control scheme that is either completely centralized or completely decentralized. Systolic arrays operating in lock-step are an example of centralized control; lightweight processors performing their own instruction decoding and control flow are an …
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