ABSTRACT
Rapid advances in silicon technology and embedded computing bring two conflicting trends to the electronics industry. On the one hand, high-performance embedded applications dictate the use of complex battery-powered devices. The evolution of the battery capacity being significantly lower than that of the application complexity, energy efficiency becomes a critical issue in the design process of these systems. On the other hand, these systems have to be flexible enough to support rapidly evolving applications, restricting the use of domain-specific architectures. These trends have led to the reconfigurable computing paradigm [1,2].
