Architecture and performance of a multicomputer type digital signal processing system `NOVI´

Author

Kanayama, Yukiharu ; Fujii, Tetsurou ; Ohta, Naohisa ; Ono, Sadayasu

Author_Institution

Transmission Syst. Lab., NTT, Kanagawa, Japan

fYear

1988

fDate

11-14 Apr 1988

Firstpage

2104

Abstract

The authors introduce a parallel DSP (digital signal processing) system called NOVI, consisting of 36 processor nodes. NOVI has a multicomputer architecture, which provides high programmability and effective scheduling capability. Its program-development-assist system facilitates powerful debugging functions to observe all states of NOVI and to control its execution. Each processor node comprises a transputer, a floating-point ALU (arithmetic logic unit), and 1 Mbyte of local memory, which can deal with even rather large tasks within a single node. An interconnection board allows easy reconfiguration into various network topologies

Keywords

computer architecture; computerised signal processing; signal processing equipment; NOVI; arithmetic logic unit; debugging functions; floating-point ALU; interconnection board; local memory; multicomputer architecture; multicomputer type digital signal processing system; network topologies; parallel DSP system; processor nodes; program-development-assist system; scheduling; transputer; Computer architecture; Digital signal processing; High performance computing; Laboratories; Parallel processing; Processor scheduling; Signal design; Signal processing; Signal processing algorithms; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1988. ICASSP-88., 1988 International Conference on

Conference_Location

New York, NY

ISSN

1520-6149

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.1988.197046

Filename

197046