The invention discloses a configuration method applied to a coarse-grained
reconfigurable array, which aims at a coarse-grained
reconfigurable array with a certain scale, and comprises a configuration defining scheme taking data links as basic description objects, a corresponding configuration generating scheme and a corresponding configuration mapping scheme. The configuration defining scheme includes that a program corresponds to a plurality of configurations, each configuration corresponds to one
data link, and each
data link consists of a plurality of reconfigurable cells with
data dependence relations. Compared with a traditional scheme taking RCs (reconfigurable cells) as basic description objects, the configuration defining scheme is capable of concealing interlinking information among the RCs and providing a larger configuration
information compression space, thereby being beneficial to decrease of the total amount of configuration and time for switching configuration. Besides, the configuration of one description
data link consists of a
route, a functional configuration and one or more data configurations, the data configurations share one
route and functional configuration information, and switching of one configuration includes one-time or multiple switching of the data configuration after one-
time switching of the corresponding
route and the functional configuration.