ASICS are more performant, but have higher overall costs (ahem engineering design).

FPGA gate level reconfiguration - for fine grained

CGRA for register transfer level reconfiguration - for coarse grained



Partial Reconfiguration Stylings

Island

Slot

Grid

Tooling for Reconfigurable Devices




Applications of Runtime Reconfiguration

Configure the system on the spot

  • Security
  • Pattern Matching
  • Networking
  • Finance

Zync 7020 can run the entire Linux kernel, and also do RTR wowee