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

fYear

1995

fDate

18-22 Sep 1995

Firstpage

333

Lastpage

337

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

ASIC Conference and Exhibit, 1995., Proceedings of the Eighth Annual IEEE International

Conference_Location

Austin, TX

ISSN

1063-0988

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2707-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASIC.1995.580743

Filename

580743