文档介绍：Dynamic Reconfigurable Architectures and
Transparent Optimization Techniques
Antonio Carlos Schneider Beck Fl. Luigi Carro
Dynamic
Reconfigurable
Architectures
and Transparent
Optimization
Techniques
Automatic Acceleration
of Software Execution
Prof. Antonio Carlos Schneider Beck Fl. Prof. Luigi Carro
Instituto de Informática Instituto de Informática
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande Universidade Federal do Rio Grande
do Sul (UFRGS) do Sul (UFRGS)
Caixa Postal 15064 Caixa Postal 15064
Campus do Vale, Bloco IV Campus do Vale, Bloco IV
Porto Alegre Porto Alegre
Brazil Brazil
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DOI -90-481-3913-2
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To Sabrina,
for her understanding and support
To Antônio and Léia,
for the continuous encouragement
To Ulisses, may his journey be full of joy
To Érika, for all our moments
To Cesare, Esther and Beti, for being there
Preface
As Moore’s law is losing steam, one already sees the phenomenon of clock fre-
quency reduction caused by the excessive power dissipation in general purpose pro-
cessors. At the same time, embedded systems are getting more heterogeneous, char-
acterized by a high diversity putational models coexisting in a single device.
Therefore, as innovative technologies that pletely or partially replace sili-
con are ari