Title
A Parallel Branching Program Machine for Emulation of Sequential Circuits
Abstract
The parallel branching program machine (PBM128) consists of 128 branching program machines (BMs) and a programmable interconnection. To represent logic functions on BMs, we use quaternary decision diagrams. To evaluate functions, we use 3-address quaternary branch instructions. We emulated many benchmark circuits on PBM128, and compared its memory size and computation time with the Intel's Core2Duo microprocessor. PBM128 requires approximately quarter of the memory for the Core2Duo, and is 21.4-96.1 times faster than the Core2Duo.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-642-00641-8_26
ARC
Keywords
Field
DocType
sequential circuits,logic function,quaternary decision diagram,programmable interconnection,computation time,benchmark circuit,3-address quaternary branch instruction,program machine,core2duo microprocessor,parallel branching program machine,memory size,branching program,evaluation function,decision diagram
Sequential logic,Computer science,Program counter,Parallel computing,Microprocessor,Binary decision diagram,Real-time computing,Emulation,Interconnection,Electronic circuit,Computation
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5453
0302-9743
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.44
7
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hiroki Nakahara115537.34
Tsutomu Sasao21083141.62
Munehiro Matsuura318924.44
Yoshifumi Kawamura4223.98