• DocumentCode
    1572086
  • Title

    A medium-grain reconfigurable processing unit

  • Author

    Van Dyken, Jason ; Delgado-Frias, José G.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA, USA
  • fYear
    2010
  • Firstpage
    729
  • Lastpage
    732
  • Abstract
    In this paper the components required to implement a central processing unit (CPU) and its arithmetic logic unit (ALU) are presented using a novel medium grain reconfigurable hardware architecture. The CPU can be configured to match the application´s requirements in terms of word-size, number and type of units, and instruction set. The MIPS instruction set has been used to show the potential of the processing unit. The clock for this implementation is calculated to be in the order of 2GHz for current technologies.
  • Keywords
    instruction sets; multiprocessing systems; reconfigurable architectures; ALU; CPU; MIPS instruction; arithmetic logic unit; central processing unit; instruction set; medium grain reconfigurable processing unit; reconfigurable hardware architecture; Central Processing Unit; Clocks; Communication system control; Computer architecture; Computer science; Digital arithmetic; Digital signal processing; Hardware; Read-write memory; Reconfigurable logic;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), 2010 53rd IEEE International Midwest Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Seattle, WA
  • ISSN
    1548-3746
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-7771-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MWSCAS.2010.5548714
  • Filename
    5548714