Enhancing CGRA Efficiency Through Aligned Compute and Communication Provisioning

Coarse-grained Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs) are domain-agnostic accelerators that enhance the energy efficiency of resource-constrained edge devices. The CGRA landscape is diverse, exhibiting trade-offs between performance, efficiency, and architectural specialization. However, CGRAs often overprovision communication resources relative to their modest computing capabilities. This occurs because the theoretically provisioned programmability for CGRAs often proves superfluous in practical implementations.