MORA: A New Coarse-Grain Reconfigurable Array for High Throughput Multimedia Processing

This paper presents a new coarse-grain reconfigurable array optimized for multimedia processing. The system has been designed to provide a dense support for arithmetic operations, wide internal data bandwidth and efficiently distributed memory resources. All these characteristics are combined into a cohesive structure that efficiently supports a block-level pipelined dataflow, which is particularly suitable for stream oriented applications. Moreover, the new reconfigurable architecture is highly flexible and easily scalable. Thanks to all these features, the proposed architecture can be drastically more speed- and area-efficient than a state of the art FPGA in executing multimedia oriented applications.