SHF: Small: Discovering New Mapping Strategies and Architectures for Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Devices Through Crowdsourcing and Data-Driven Techniques

粗粒级可重构织物在实现节能、灵活的应用领域设计方面具有很大的前景。然而，为了将这些结构用于实际应用，非常需要开发智能映射算法来在这些结构上实现感兴趣的应用。本研究致力于通过众包为定制的粗粒度设备发现新的映射策略。这项拟议研究的主旨是开发一种科学游戏，通过利用人类的直觉和识别模式和机会的能力，即使在复杂的问题中也能发现更好的映射算法。在游戏环境中，玩家面临着越来越困难的地图绘制问题，玩家的数据集也越来越大。分析动作以识别成功的游戏玩家使用的常见模式。人类在基于视觉直觉和经验解决问题时做出的战略举措所获得的洞察力，可以用来发现新的地图绘制方法，这些方法超出了传统算法的想象。如果时间允许，还将通过给予玩家在游戏环境中进行架构更改的机会来调查架构创新。这项研究中开发的新的节能架构和映射算法将推动对健康、安全和安保、个人多媒体和航空航天至关重要的广泛便携式/可穿戴计算应用的开发。

Coarse-grained reconfigurable fabrics have great promise for achieving energy-efficient flexible designs for an application domain. In order to use these fabrics for practical applications, however, there is a great need to develop smart mapping algorithms to implement applications of interest onto these fabrics. This research is focused on discovering new mapping strategies for customized coarse-grained devices through crowd sourcing. The main thrust of the proposed research is to develop a science game to discover better mapping algorithms by making use of human intuition and ability to recognize patterns and opportunities even in complex problems. Players are presented with successively more difficult mapping problems in a game environment, and the vast dataset of players. Moves are analyzed to recognize common patterns used by successful game players. The insights gained from strategic moves humans make while solving problems based on their visual intuition and experience can be used to discover new mapping approaches that are beyond what can be conceived with traditional algorithms. If time permits, architectural innovations will also be investigated by giving players opportunities to make architectural changes in the game environment. New energy-efficient architectures and mapping algorithms that are developed in this research will spur development of a broad range of portable/wearable computing applications critical to health, safety and security, personal multimedia, and aerospace.