HoneyComb: An Application-Driven Online Adaptive Reconfigurable Hardware Architecture

Abstract

Since the introduction of the first reconfigurable devices in 1985 the field of reconfigurable computing developed a broad variety of architectures from fine-grained to coarse-grained types. However, the main disadvantages of the reconfigurable approaches, the costs in area, and power consumption, are still present. This contribution presents a solution for application-driven adaptation of our reconfigurable architecture at register transfer level (RTL) to reduce the resource requirements and power consumption while keeping the flexibility and performance for a predefined set of applications. Furthermore, implemented runtime adaptive features like online routing and configuration sequencing will be presented and discussed. A presentation of the prototype chip of this architecture designed in 90 nm standard cell technology manufactured by TSMC will conclude this contribution.

A novel embryonics electronic cell array structure based on functional decomposition and circular removal self-repair mechanism

“…Researches on EECA structure around the world mainly include the following: the basic structure of EECA was introduced and the basic design of EECA was given. 4 A honeycomb architecture of EECA was proposed, which enriches connection between embryonics cells; 5,6 a three-dimensional embryonics cell structure was studied and embryonics hardware was developed into three-dimensional space. 7,8 EECA was divided into a control module array and a function module array, with different statuses for two neighbor cells.…”