Title
Exploiting pipelining to tolerate wire delays in a programmable-reconfigurable processor
Abstract
As fabrication technologies advance, increasing wire delays in semiconductor systems are leading to larger and larger gaps between the clock rates of circuits implemented in reconfigurable logic and those of conventional microprocessors. In this paper, we present a pipelining scheme for the Amalgam programmable-reconfigurable processor that divides long wire delays into multi-cycle operations and supports overlapping of independent computations. On streaming benchmark programs, this pipelining scheme increases the clock rates of Amalgam's reconfigurable clusters by up to 72%, allowing the pipelined Amalgam to maintain a 2.6× performance advantage over a purely-programmable processor in a wide range of fabrication processes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1109/FPL.2005.1515699
FPL
Keywords
Field
DocType
clock rate,programmable logic devices,microprocessor chips,pipelining scheme,reconfigurable architectures,amalgam reconfigurable cluster,reconfigurable logic,semiconductor system,amalgam programmable-reconfigurable processor,wire delay,benchmark program,conventional microprocessor,pipeline processing
Pipeline (computing),Computer science,Parallel computing,Electronic circuit,Clock rate,Fabrication,Computation,Embedded system,Programmable logic device
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7803-9362-7
2
0.41
References 
Authors
10
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chi-Wei Wang1264.37
Nicholas P. Carter234933.84
Richard B. Kujoth361.17
Jeffrey J. Cook41107.45
Derek B. Gottlieb592.73