PROXIMA: PROlog eXecutIon MAchine

Author

Baldi, Livio ; Civera, Pierluigi ; Iurlaro, Angela ; Masera, Guido ; Pagni, Andrea ; Piccinini, Gianluca ; Poluzzi, Rinaldo ; Roch, Massimo Ruo ; Zamboni, Maurizio

Author_Institution

SGS-Thomson Microelectronics, Milano, Italy

Volume

28

Issue

3

fYear

1993

fDate

3/1/1993 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

362

Lastpage

370

Abstract

The design and the technological aspects involved in the integration of a high-performance Prolog machine on silicon are described. Many Prolog machines have been implemented by using a large number of boards. Consequently they are expensive, cumbersome, and not yet achievable by industrial standards. There have been many attempts in the US, Japan, and Europe to integrate Prolog engines in silicon, in order to increase performance. The described processor, PROXIMA (PROlog eXecutIon MAchine), is a VLSI Prolog engine suitable to be added onto a commercial workstation. The PROXIMA chip set has been integrated in silicon using a double-metal 0.8 μm n-well SGS-Thomson proprietary CMOS technology

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; PROLOG; VLSI; microprocessor chips; 0.8 micron; CMOS technology; PROXIMA; Prolog engine; Prolog machine; Si; VLSI; chip set; commercial workstation; double metal n-well process; Artificial intelligence; Calculus; Computational modeling; Engines; Europe; Hardware; Logic programming; Natural languages; Registers; Silicon;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9200

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/4.210004

Filename

210004