An associative communication network for fine and large grain dataflow

The Associative Communication Network consists of a crossbar switch melted with a distributed associative memory. The network supports the design of scalable multiprocessor systems with low programming effort for communication. Information between the processors is automatically routed by the network. Based on the Associative Communication Network the Associative Dataflow Architecture ADARC has been developed and implemented. ADARC supports fine grain as well as large grain parallelism. The ADARC architecture has been implemented based on standard off-the-shelf components and an ASIC for the Communication Network. Programming tools are currently under development. This paper is focused on the Associative Communication Network. It furthermore contains a summary on ADARC, a description of the programming method, and reports on the hardware implementation