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The paper surveys a decade of R&D on coarse grain reconfigurable hardware and related CAD, points out why this emerging discipline is heading toward a dichotomy of computing science, and advocates the introduction of a new soft machine paradigm to replace CAD by compilation.
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Reiner W. Hartenstein (2001) studied this question.