Title :
Low-power reconfigurable processor
Author :
Donohoe, Gregory W.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Adv. Microelectron., Albuquerque, NM, USA
Abstract :
The reconfigurable data path processor (RDPP) is a multi-processing integrated circuit under development for data intensive, streaming applications aboard spacecraft. It is targeted to an ultra-low-power, radiation-tolerant CMOS technology. The RDPP implements a synchronous data flow computational model with conditional data flow instead of conditional branching. In addition to the processor chip, a suite of support software is being developed.
Keywords :
CMOS digital integrated circuits; data flow computing; low-power electronics; microprocessor chips; multiprocessing systems; parallel architectures; parallel programming; radiation effects; reconfigurable architectures; space vehicle electronics; RDPP; conditional branching; conditional data flow; data intensive streaming applications; low-power reconfigurable processor; multi-processing integrated circuit; processor chip; reconfigurable data path processor; spacecraft; support software suite; synchronous data flow computational model; ultra-low-power radiation-tolerant CMOS technology; Application specific integrated circuits; CMOS technology; Clocks; Field programmable gate arrays; Microelectronics; NASA; Parallel processing; Space technology; Space vehicles; Throughput;
Conference_Titel :
Aerospace Conference Proceedings, 2002. IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7231-X
DOI :
10.1109/AERO.2002.1036909
