Dynamic Reconfiguration: Architectures and Algorithms offers a
comprehensive treatment of dynamically reconfigurable computer
architectures and algorithms for them. The coverage is broad starting
from fundamental algorithmic techniques, ranging across algorithms for a
wide array of problems and applications, to simulations between models.
The presentation employs a single reconfigurable model (the
reconfigurable mesh) for most algorithms, to enable the reader to
distill key ideas without the cumbersome details of a myriad of models.
In addition to algorithms, the book discusses topics that provide a
better understanding of dynamic reconfiguration such as scalability and
computational power, and more recent advances such as optical models,
run-time reconfiguration (on FPGA and related platforms), and
implementing dynamic reconfiguration. The book, featuring many examples
and a large set of exercises, is an excellent textbook or reference for
a graduate course. It is also a useful reference to researchers and
system developers in the area.