Wafer-scale integration of systolic arrays

  • Authors:
  • Frank Thomson Leighton;Charles E. Leiserson

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • SFCS '82 Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 1982

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Abstract

This paper describes and analyzes several algorithms for constructing systolic array networks from cells on a silicon wafer. Some of the cells may be defective, and thus the networks must be configured to avoid them. We adopt a probabilistic model of cell failure, and attempt to construct networks whose maximum wire length is minimal Although the algorithms presented are designed principally for application to the wafer-scale integration of one and two-dimensional systolic arrays, they can also be used to construct networks in well studied models of geometric complexity. Some of the algorithms are of considerable practical interest.