Title :
A distributed controller for system level integration
Author :
Vashi, Mehul ; Raj, Vijay ; Youn, Hee Y.
Author_Institution :
Texas Univ., Arlington, TX, USA
Abstract :
Currently large digital systems consist of a control unit and many processing units. Much work has been done in partitioning large processing units (PUs) into multiple PUs. However, there is still a large control unit that must control each of these PUs. This results in long lines from the control unit to the PUs and hence a long clock period. We present a method to break the control unit into many smaller control units (local CUs) so that each of these local CUs can sit on the same chip as the PU that it controls. These local CUs are partitioned in such a fashion that there is a pipelined sequence of execution between them
Keywords :
distributed control; microcontrollers; multichip modules; pipeline processing; control unit; digital systems; distributed controller; multiprocessors; partitioning; pipelined sequence; system level integration; Centralized control; Clocks; Control system synthesis; Control systems; Delay; Digital systems; Distributed control; Microcontrollers; Pipelines;
Conference_Titel :
VLSI, 1994. Design Automation of High Performance VLSI Systems. GLSV '94, Proceedings., Fourth Great Lakes Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Notre Dame, IN
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-5610-7
DOI :
10.1109/GLSV.1994.290006
