Title :
Performance tradeoffs in rings of data-driven elements
Author :
Spray, Andrew ; Jones, Simon
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Newcastle Univ., NSW, Australia
fDate :
1/1/1993 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A method for maintaining causality within medium grained cellular based architectures is discussed. The strategy combines the benefits of data-driven communication with a hardware simplicity, latency and throughput rate approaching that of globally checked systolic arrays. It is shown that with this strategy higher throughput rates and lower latencies can be achieved by using slower processing elements
Keywords :
performance evaluation; systolic arrays; data-driven communication; data-driven elements; globally checked systolic arrays; hardware simplicity; latency; maintaining causality; medium grained cellular based architectures; performance tradeoffs; rings; throughput rate; Arithmetic; Clocks; Computer architecture; Delay; Flow graphs; Registers; Spraying; Synchronization; Systolic arrays; Throughput;
Journal_Title :
Computers, IEEE Transactions on
