The thirteen articles in this special section focus on agile and open source hardware. These papers cover variety of research topics related to fast, agile, and open hardware design, including methodologies, languages, abstractions, and simulators. As the benefits f traditional technology scaling, like Dennard Scaling and Moore’s Law, slow significantly, computer architecture is poised to enter a golden age of innovation. Domain-specific architectures (DSA) are a promising solution to continue improving computing performance, while maintaining the level of energyand area-efficiency previously found in technology scaling. Unfortunately, traditional methodologies of chip design and hardware development have created significant barriers, requiring extremely high non-recurring engineering costs in tools, labor, IPs, and time, which ultimately hold back broad adoption of DSA.

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敏捷和开源硬件

本专题部分的 13 篇文章侧重于敏捷和开源硬件。这些论文涵盖了与快速、敏捷和开放硬件设计相关的各种研究主题，包括方法论、语言、抽象和模拟器。随着传统技术扩展（如丹纳德扩展和摩尔定律）的收益显着放缓，计算机架构已准备好进入创新的黄金时代。特定领域架构 (DSA) 是一种很有前景的解决方案，可以继续提高计算性能，同时保持以前在技术扩展中发现的能源和面积效率水平。不幸的是，传统的芯片设计和硬件开发方法造成了重大障碍，需要在工具、劳动力、IP 和时间方面产生极高的非经常性工程成本，