PRISM-II compiler and architecture

Author

Wazlowski, M. ; Agarwal, L. ; Lee, T. ; Smith, A. ; Lam, E. ; Athanas, P. ; Silverman, H. ; Ghosh, S.

Author_Institution

Lab. for Eng., Brown Univ., Providence, RI, USA

fYear

1993

Firstpage

9

Lastpage

16

Abstract

This paper discusses the architecture and compiler for a general-purpose metamorphic computing platform called PRISM-II. PRISM-II improves the performance of many computationally-intensive tasks by augmenting the functionality of the core processor with new instructions that match the characteristics of targeted applications. In essence, PRISM (processor reconfiguration through instruction set metamorphosis) is a general purpose hardware platform that behaves like an application-specific platform. Two methods for hardware synthesis, one using VHDL Designer and the other using X-BLOX, are presented and synthesis results are compared

Keywords

logic arrays; multiprocessor interconnection networks; parallel programming; program compilers; reconfigurable architectures; Am29050 processor; FPGA; PRISM-II; VHDL Designer; X-BLOX; Xilinx XC4010; application-specific platform; architecture; compiler; computationally-intensive tasks; core processor; field programmable gate arrays; general purpose hardware platform; general purpose metamorphic architecture; general-purpose metamorphic computing platform; hardware synthesis; Application software; Application specific processors; Computer aided instruction; Computer applications; Computer architecture; Hardware; High performance computing; Kernel; Laboratories; Polynomials;

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.1993.279484

Filename

279484