• DocumentCode
    1686075
  • Title

    Spyder: a reconfigurable VLIW processor using FPGAs

  • Author

    Iseli, Christian ; Sanchez, Eduardo

  • Author_Institution
    Logic Syst. Lab., Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Lausanne, Switzerland
  • fYear
    1993
  • Firstpage
    17
  • Lastpage
    24
  • Abstract
    A processor with multiple reconfigurable execution units has been designed and implemented. The reconfigurable execution units are implemented using reprogrammable field programmable gate array (FPGA) chips. The architecture and implementation of this processor are described in detail. An example shows that this reconfigurable processor is able to compute the new state of 100´000´000 cells of Conway´s game of life per second with a clock speed of 6.25 MHz
  • Keywords
    logic arrays; multiprocessor interconnection networks; reconfigurable architectures; 6.25 MHz; Spyder; game of life; multiple reconfigurable execution units; reconfigurable VLIW processor; reprogrammable field programmable gate array; Circuits; Clocks; Computer architecture; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Laboratories; Logic design; Programmable logic arrays; Reconfigurable logic; VLIW;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    FPGAs for Custom Computing Machines, 1993. Proceedings. IEEE Workshop on
  • Conference_Location
    Napa, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-3890-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/FPGA.1993.279483
  • Filename
    279483