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Following the discussion on reconfigurable systems, this chapter is dedicated to show several and different examples of architectures that have been used both in the academy and in the industry. They are presented according to the classification studied in the previous chapter. Also, a brief discussion on recent dataflow machines is done, since their structure is very similar to some of the reviewed reconfigurable systems. After that, one can find comparative tables summarizing the previously studied information. Then, an overview of the characteristics of the employed benchmark sets shows that all those proposed reconfigurable architectures fail on the very same and important aspect: they cannot cope with a large range of different applications in the same device, nor can they sustain binary compatibility. Therefore, it is made clear that some sort of dynamic optimization is necessary.
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Schneider Beck Fl., A.C., Carro, L. (2010). Deployment of Reconfigurable Systems. In: Dynamic Reconfigurable Architectures and Transparent Optimization Techniques. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3913-2_3
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