Supporting `Design for Re-use' with Modular Design

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Design of workload generator for modular hardware accelerator

“…Modular design is a natural extension in structural principle. The principle aims to create variety, minimize complexity, and maximize kinship in designs and across product families [4]. The idea behind MHA is to combine critical blocks or units that require accelerator architecture and provide a platform to interface with any computational algorithm (engine).…”

New product development for mass customization: a systematic review

“…In the Planning stage, the activity of assessing and prioritizing projects -and, more precisely, the sub-activity of planning the product platform -is frequently the initial activity of the tools within this group, especially those developed for the re-project or optimization of the product or portfolio (Du, Jiao, & Tseng, 2001;Huang, Bin, & Halevi, 2003;Meehan, Duffy, & Whitfield, 2007;Qu, Bin, Huang, & Yang, 2011). There are also tools that initiate the product family project, with the analysis of customer needs.…”

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