FMRPU: design of fine-grain multi-context reconfigurable processing unit

  • Authors:
  • Jih-Ching Chiu;Ren-Bang Lin

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan;Department of Electrical Engineering, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

  • Venue:
  • ACSAC'05 Proceedings of the 10th Asia-Pacific conference on Advances in Computer Systems Architecture
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

At present the scale of multimedia and communication systems has become more and more complicated due to their fast developments. In order to handle diverse functions and shorten system development time, the ability to reconfigure system architecture becomes an important and flexible design consideration. In this paper, we propose a novel reconfigurable processing unit, FMRPU, which is a fine-grain with multi-context reconfigurable processing unit targeting at high-throughput and data-parallel applications. It contains 64 reconfigurable logic evel connectivity. According to the simulation results, the longest routing arrays, 16 switch boxes, and connects with each other via three hierarchical-lpath of FMRPU only takes 6.5 ns at 0.35 processes, which is able to construct the required logic circuit efficiently. To compare with same kind devices in dealing with Motion Estimation operations, the performance is raise to 17% and has excellent performance in executing DSP algorithms.