Title :
The MGAP-2: a micro-grained massively parallel array processor
Author :
Gayles, Eric S. ; Owens, Robert M. ; Irwin, Mary Jane
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, USA
Abstract :
The Micro-Grain Array Processor-2 (MGAP-2) is a two dimensional SIMD array of 49,152 fine-grain processors, designed primarily for high performance signal processing. Each processor can compute any one of 65,536 boolean transformations. What separates the MGAP-2 from existing fine-grain arrays is its processor level interconnect control. Each processor can independently select its communication direction. This allows a programmer to cluster groups of processors into larger computational units, and provides flexible interprocessor communication
Keywords :
CMOS digital integrated circuits; VLSI; digital signal processing chips; parallel architectures; parallel machines; Boolean transformations; MGAP-2; communication direction selection; fine-grain processors; flexible interprocessor communication; high performance signal processing; massively parallel array processor; micro-grained array processor; processor level interconnect control; two dimensional SIMD array; Arithmetic; Array signal processing; Control systems; Integrated circuit interconnections; Logic; Multiplexing; Process design; Read-write memory; Registers; Signal processing algorithms;
Conference_Titel :
ASIC Conference and Exhibit, 1995., Proceedings of the Eighth Annual IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Austin, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2707-1
DOI :
10.1109/ASIC.1995.580743
