Title :
Instruction Set Design for a Nibble-Serial Signal Processing Element
Author :
Cottrell, Robert A.
Author_Institution :
Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, UMIST, PO Box 88, Manchester, UK
Abstract :
Programmable nibble-serial processors are an efficient means of implementation for signal processing algorithms involving the solution of difference equations. The architecture is based on a simple processing element, known as a Signal Processing Element (SPE), of which many could be fabricated on a single VLSI chip. This paper discusses the design of an instruction set for such an SPE, considering in particular the effects of data memory size, and the use of special purpose registers.
Keywords :
Algorithm design and analysis; Arithmetic; Difference equations; Pipelines; Random access memory; Signal design; Signal processing; Signal processing algorithms; Silicon; Very large scale integration;
Conference_Titel :
Solid-State Circuits Conference, 1988. ESSCIRC '88. Fourteenth European
Conference_Location :
Manchester, UK
