Review Article

Ingredients of Adaptability: A Survey of Reconfigurable Processors

Table 2

Survey of commercial reconfigurable processors.

Reconfigurable processor (year) Application domain Base processor, ISA Max. frequency Reconf. block Tool support

Stretch (2004) [65] Embedded Custom VLIW [85] 400 MHz @65 nm (Stretch S7100) Coarse-grained Integrated

AMD Torrenza (2006) [21] High performance, general purpose x86-64 3.3 GHz Fine-grained, Altera, Xilinx Separate

Intel Atom processor E6x5C series (2010) [3] Embedded, general purpose MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, IA-32, x86-64 1.3 GHz Fine-grained, Altera Separate

IBM DB2 analytics accelerator (2010) [84] High performance, data analytics Fine-grained, Commercial Integrated flow, Lime [86]

Altera FPGA Series (2011) [87, 88] Embedded ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore, Nios II soft processor 2 GHz, 340 MHz [89] Fine-grained, DSP macro blocks Separate

Xilinx FPGA Series, Zynq-7000 family (2011) [1] Embedded ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore, MicroBlaze soft processor, PowerPC 2 GHz

Fine-grained, DSP macro blocks Separate

ADRES (2011) [30, 90] Wireless baseband Custom VLIW 700 MHz @40 nm Coarse-grained, Customizable Integrated

Recore Systems (2011) [91] Embedded, DSP Custom DSP [58] Coarse-grained Integrated

ARM SoC FPGA (2012) [92] Embedded ARM v4T ISA 200 MHz Fine-grained, Altera Separate