Invariants for Distributed Local Control Elements of a New Synchronous Bit-Serial Architecture

  • Authors:
  • Florian Dittmann;Achim Rettberg;Thomas Lehmann;Mauro C. Zanella

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • DELTA '04 Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Workshop on Electronic Design, Test and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

The growing need for application class specific but still flexibledata processing leads to a demand of new computer architectures.Reorganziation and combination of proven designparadigms are promising ways to reach these goals.The fully reconfigurable self-timed bit-serial and fully interlockedMACT architecture is one of those new architectures.Although MACT does not rely on a central controller, its localsynchronization still demands special care is taken. Thisfact is especially true if routers are added to the architecture.In this paper we present fundamental invariants for the highlevel synthesis of MACT as well as an extended explanationof the routing elements. We prove the usefulness of the architectureby an example implementation of two convolutionfilters within one data flow graph.