Design of low power coarse grained reconfigurable architectures Presenting new approaches to reconfigurable architectures for embedded systems this book discusses the design and implementation of coarse grained reconfigurable architectures (CGRAs). It provides novel techniques for designing CGRA based systems. Focusing on low power reconfiguration techniques the text highlights the tradeoffs between performance and power in CGRAs and details integrated low power design approaches. The authors outline the history and emerging research of CGRAs. They also cover dynamic context management and compression for low power CGRAs as well as hierarchical reconfigurable computing arrays