Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1988. ICASSP-88., 1988 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
New York, NY
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.1988.197046
