Title :
An integrated floating point vector processor for DSP and scientific computing
Author :
Spaderna, D. ; Green, P. ; Tam, K. ; Datta, T. ; Kumar, M.
Author_Institution :
Sharp Microelectron. Technol. Inc., Vancouver, WA, USA
Abstract :
The architecture of a high-performance floating-point microprocessor intended for computation-intensive applications is presented. Utilizing a massively parallel execution unit, very high bandwidth onchip memory, and extensive parallel address calculation hardware, the processor is expected to achieve peak execution rates of 400 MFLOPS for single-precision floating-point numbers. This type of performance is competitive with that of popular mainframe vector processors
Keywords :
digital signal processing chips; parallel architectures; 400 MFLOPS; DSP; computation-intensive applications; floating-point microprocessor; integrated floating point vector processor; mainframe vector processors; massively parallel execution unit; onchip memory; parallel address calculation hardware; peak execution rates; scientific computing; single-precision floating-point numbers; Arithmetic; Bandwidth; Clocks; Digital signal processing; Hardware; Integrated circuit technology; Microelectronics; Read-write memory; Scientific computing; Vector processors;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Design: VLSI in Computers and Processors, 1989. ICCD '89. Proceedings., 1989 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cambridge, MA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-1971-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICCD.1989.63318
