A Novel ASIC Design Approach based on a New Machine Paradigm

The paper first introduces a novel machine paradigm as a model for very high performance implementation of parallel algorithms in important application areas such as image processing, digital signal processing, computer graphics, VLSI layout verification, routing and others. The paper illustrates this model by means of a simple application example. Then the paper introduces a novel method for fast and cheap design of ASICs and highly flexible accelerators, which is based on this paradigm. The paper gives some hardware throughput and hardware cost figures having been obtained experimentally.