Acronym · Compute & AI Hardware
CGRA (Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Array)
A reconfigurable fabric whose programmable elements are word-width arithmetic units and routing channels rather than single-bit lookup tables, giving far better area and power efficiency than an FPGA at the cost of generality.
- Also known as
- Reconfigurable dataflow array
- Type
- Acronym
- Domain
- Compute & AI Hardware, Processor classes
Notes
SambaNova and several academic projects use CGRA-style fabrics to map whole neural network graphs spatially.
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