TY - GEN
T1 - A micro-grained VLSI signal processor
AU - Irwin, Mary Jane
AU - Owens, Robert Michael
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 1992 IEEE.
PY - 1992
Y1 - 1992
N2 - In this paper we descrilx; a new. very fine grain, VLSI processor. Very fine grain VLSI processors arc cspccially suited for problems with a high degree of parallelism. However, to maintain their fine grainness (i.e., small size) most fine grain processors arc relatively inflexible. Attempts to increase flexibility usually increase processor complexity and. thereby, decreases grainness. Our two-dimensional, micro- grained processor maintains both a high degree of flexibility and fine grainness by reducing each processing cell to a small RAM and several multiplexers. For even greater speed, arithmetic operations arc based on a redundant number representation. Algorithms for SIMD, mesh architectures can be easily adapted for our micro-grained processor. This is particularly true for algorithms for certain two-dimensional signal and image processing problems.
AB - In this paper we descrilx; a new. very fine grain, VLSI processor. Very fine grain VLSI processors arc cspccially suited for problems with a high degree of parallelism. However, to maintain their fine grainness (i.e., small size) most fine grain processors arc relatively inflexible. Attempts to increase flexibility usually increase processor complexity and. thereby, decreases grainness. Our two-dimensional, micro- grained processor maintains both a high degree of flexibility and fine grainness by reducing each processing cell to a small RAM and several multiplexers. For even greater speed, arithmetic operations arc based on a redundant number representation. Algorithms for SIMD, mesh architectures can be easily adapted for our micro-grained processor. This is particularly true for algorithms for certain two-dimensional signal and image processing problems.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICASSP.1992.226514
DO - 10.1109/ICASSP.1992.226514
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:2542435140
T3 - ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
SP - 641
EP - 644
BT - ICASSP 1992 - 1992 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 1992 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 1992
Y2 - 23 March 1992 through 26 March 1992
ER -