AsAP: A Fine-Grained Many-Core Platform for DSP Applications

Author

Baas, Bevan ; Yu, Zhiyi ; Meeuwsen, Michael ; Sattari, Omar ; Apperson, Ryan ; Work, Eric ; Webb, Jeremy ; Lai, Michael ; Mohsenin, Tinoosh ; Truong, Dean ; Cheung, Jason

Author_Institution

California Univ., Davis

Volume

27

Issue

2

fYear

2007

Firstpage

34

Lastpage

45

Abstract

Many emerging and future applications require significant levels of complex digital signal processing and operate within limited power budgets. Moreover, dramatically rising VLSI fabrication and design costs make programmable and reconfigurable solutions increasingly attractive. the ASAP project addresses these challenges with a chip multiprocessor composed of simple processors with small memories, achieving high energy efficiency and throughput in a small chip area.

Keywords

VLSI; digital signal processing chips; integrated circuit design; AsAP platform; DSP applications; VLSI design; VLSI fabrication; chip multiprocessor; digital signal processing; fine-grained many-core platform; CMOS technology; Computer architecture; Costs; Digital signal processing; Digital signal processing chips; Energy efficiency; Fabrication; Parallel processing; Transmitters; Wires; GALS networking; MIMD processors; digital signal processing; embedded systems; microarchitecture; multiprocessors; special-purpose and application-based systems;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Micro, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0272-1732

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MM.2007.29

Filename

4287394