ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
The development of the MU5 computer system
Communications of the ACM - Special issue on computer architecture
Communications of the ACM - Special issue on computer architecture
A design study of a shared resource computing system
ISCA '76 Proceedings of the 3rd annual symposium on Computer architecture
Reconfigurable Pipeline Systems
ACM '78 Proceedings of the 1978 annual conference
A Restructurable Computer System
IEEE Transactions on Computers
A Multicomputer System with Dynamic Architecture
IEEE Transactions on Computers
The TI ASC: a highly modular and flexible super computer architecture
AFIPS '72 (Fall, part I) Proceedings of the December 5-7, 1972, fall joint computer conference, part I
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This paper describes a pipeline system with dynamic architecture that performs cost-effective adaptations to the algorithm being executed. The system performs the following pipeline adaptations: (1) the number of stages in the pipeline changed to allow each instruction to activate the number of stages that matches the number of operations it realizes; (2) the operation sequences in the pipeline modified to allow any sequence of operations to execute without reconfiguration and thus eliminate the time overhead caused by this reconfiguration; and (3) the operation time in each stage adjusted to the minimum required for that operation because it may shorten the time of the total operation. This paper also discusses fast and flexible information exchanges between pipeline stages that can be done while the pipeline is working. Namely, each pipeline stage Ci may obtain during pipeline computations a temporary result that was computed by any other stage Cj. It is shown that such a pipeline may be organized from DC groups and thus be amenable to LSI implementation.