Bit-Matrix Decomposition and Dynamic Reconfiguration: A Unified Arithmetic Processor Architecture, Design and Test

  • Authors:
  • Rong Lin

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IPDPS '02 Proceedings of the 16th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

This paper presents the architecture, design and test of a unified arithmetic processor, developed based on recently proposed partial product bit-matrix decomposition and dynamic reconfiguration parallel processing mechanism.By trading bitwidth for array size, the processor is able to perform several operations involving the multiplieation of two 32-b numbers and two 4脳4 matriees of 8-b numbers, as well as the evaluation of the inner produet of two size-4 arrays of 16-b numbers. All of them are important to many applieations ineluding graphies and volume rendering.A set of very simple and effieient reconfigurable switches is utilized to aehieve the high performanee. Only two extra bits are needed for all reeonfiguration controls. The architecture also possesses a superiority for high quality test. The cireuit simulations with a 2.5V, 0.25碌 proeess have shown that the proeessor performanee including delay and VLSI area is comparable with the existing single-function counterparts.