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The eternal quest of computer designers is to produce an efficient yet general purpose architecture that can exploit parallelism across a wide range of applications. Unfortunately, the wider the range a system is designed for, the less efficient it tends to be when asked to perform any specific task. Reconfigurable computing is a new form of computation in which reconfigurable logic is used to produce “limited purpose” processors which tailor the architecture to the needs of each application. Several different reconfigurable computers have been built to address applications in computational science, communication, industrial robotics, and defense.
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Arnold, J.M. (2001). Reconfigurable Computing. In: Ebisuzaki, T., Makino, J. (eds) New Horizons of Computational Science. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 263. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0864-8_11
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