Fine- and Coarse-Grain Reconfigurable Computing

The main objective of the book is to provide in a unified way the scientific discipline of Reconfigurable Computing. The fundamental concepts and comparison studies among well-known existing implementations both for fine-grain (FPGA) reconfigurable architectures and for coarse-grain architectures will be described. After careful searching in the market of the available books in the reconfigurable computing field, the fact that there is not any book in the market which describes the...
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The main objective of the book is to provide in a unified way the scientific discipline of Reconfigurable Computing. The fundamental concepts and comparison studies among well-known existing implementations both for fine-grain (FPGA) reconfigurable architectures and for coarse-grain architectures will be described. After careful searching in the market of the available books in the reconfigurable computing field, the fact that there is not any book in the market which describes the Reconfigurable Computing field in a unified way as a single entity we will prepare a textbook (i.e. tutorial style book), but not a book with very advanced new material. Books with very advanced technical material will attract a small number of potential readers (i.e. very small market). The unified way of presenting the reconfigurable computing material reflects also the current trend in academia and industry for using mixed-granularity (fine- and coarse-grain) reconfigurable processors in new System-on-Chip (SoC) implementations. We strongly believe that that new book real needs in academia and industry. The first part of the book will cover in a tutorial way the topic of Reconfigurable Computing: i) Fine-grain reconfigurable architectures and ii) coarse-grain reconfigurable architectures. The second part concerns contributions from academia and industry with recent advances in specific reconfigurable topics avoiding as much as possible too much technical information.