Design strategies for implementing systolic and wavefront arrays using OCCAM

There is currently significant interest in the use of highly concurrent processor arrays to implement signal processing algorithms as they lead to a substantial reduction in the computational time. This paper shows how the OCCAM programming language can be used to aid the design of such architectures. This design approach has several interesting features: systolic and wavefront arrays can be designed, and since the method is OCCAM based, the algebra used to describe the computational structure is also the code required to program the algorithm on an array of INMOS IMS T424 transputers, INTEL 8086 processors, or Motorola 68000 processors.