Architecture template and design flow to support application parallelism on reconfigurable platforms

This paper introduces the ReSArT (Reconfigurable Scalable Architecture Template). Based on a suitable design space model, ReSArT is parametrizable, scalable, and able to support all levels of parallelism. To derive architecture instances from the template, a design environment called DEflnE (Design Environment for ReSArT Instance Generation) is used, which integrates some existing academic and industrial tools with ReSArT-specific components, developed as a part of this work. Different architecture instances were tested with a set of 10 benchmark applications as a proof of concept, achieving a maximum degree of parallelism of 30 and an average degree of parallelism of nearly 20 16-bit operations per cycle.