Flexible Interconnection Network for Dynamically and Partially Reconfigurable Architectures

Table 1

Compliance between current interconnection structures and DPR constraints.

DPR requirements	Buses	Mesh	CoNoChi	Ring	Fat-tree
Dynamic scheduling	NO	OK	OK	OK	OK
2D placement	NO	OK	OK	OK	OK
Heterogeneous CEs	OK	NO	OK	OK	OK
Heterogeneous FPGAs	OK	NO	NO	OK	OK
Resource consumption	OK	OK	NO	OK	NO
Routing flexibility	NO	OK	—	NO	OK
Communication parallelism	NO	OK	OK	OK	OK
Bandwidth	—	NO	—	NO	OK
Latencies	NO	NO	—	NO	OK