Optimal Matrix Multiplication on Fault-Tolerant VLSI Arrays

  • Authors:
  • P. J. Varman;I. V. Ramakrishnan

  • Affiliations:
  • Rice Univ., Houston, TX;Univ. of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

A fault-tolerant array for matrix multiplication that explicitly incorporates mechanisms for easy testability and reconfigurability is described. All signals in the array travel only a constant distance (independent of array size) in any clock cycle. An optimal-time algorithm, designed for multiplying matrices, is described. The algorithm is an efficient simulation of a 2-D systolic algorithm for multiplying matrices.