• DocumentCode
    2485239
  • Title

    Implementation of an adaptive reconfigurable group organized (ARGO) parallel architecture

  • Author

    Szajek, Lukasz ; Kirischian, Lev G.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Ryerson Polytech. Inst., Toronto, Ont., Canada
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    2000
  • Firstpage
    150
  • Lastpage
    154
  • Abstract
    The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the implementation of an adaptable parallel architecture capable of system to task adaptation. The system implementation was based on XILINX FPGA devices. The adaptation was achieved by reconfiguring FPGAs to correspond to the task data flow graph. Scaling system resources and interconnecting them with a use of a virtual bus created clusters called group processors (GP). Each group processor operated as a fixed architecture system for the duration of the task. By developing custom macro operations such as vector processing units a speedup of as much as thirty times was obtained through hardware support and careful architecture selection. By developing multiple instances of macro-operations and combining them in GPs allowed efficient parallel processing
  • Keywords
    data flow graphs; field programmable gate arrays; parallel architectures; reconfigurable architectures; XILINX FPGA devices; adaptive reconfigurable group organized parallel architecture; custom macro operations; group processors; hardware support; macro-operations; task data flow graph; virtual bus; Algorithm design and analysis; Computer architecture; Field programmable gate arrays; Flow graphs; Hardware; Parallel architectures; Parallel processing; Reconfigurable architectures; Resource management; Scalability;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Parallel Computing in Electrical Engineering, 2000. PARELEC 2000. Proceedings. International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Trois-Rivieres, Que.
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-0759-X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PCEE.2000.873619
  • Filename
    873619