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2007 International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops (ICPPW 2007)
An Architecture of Dynamically Reconfigurable Processing Unit(RPU)
Xi'an, Chin
September 10-September 14
ISBN: 0-7695-2934-8
Guochang Zhou, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Xubang Shen, Xi'an Microelectronic Technology Institute, China
Reconfigurable system can offer considerably higher performance than general purpose processors and are, in addition, significantly more flexible than application-specific systems. The efficient coarse-grained dynamically reconfigurable processing unit is the key feature of the reconfigurable system. In this paper, a novel dynamically reconfigurable processing unit (RPU) is proposed in order to improve the flexibility and adaptability of the general processing element(PE). By dynamic configuration of the configurable register(Creg), the proposed RPU can process complex number(8-bit real part and imaginary part) and 16-bit fixed number( unsigned-magnitude or 2?s complement data). The operation of 8-bit complex number multiply-accumulation is performed in a single clock cycle. Therefore, two RPUs working together can execute butterfly computation in a single clock cycle. Based on Charter 0.25um standard cell library, the area of RPU is 0.8*0.8 mm2 and critical path delay is 16ns.
Citation:
Guochang Zhou, Xubang Shen, "An Architecture of Dynamically Reconfigurable Processing Unit(RPU)," icppw, pp.20, 2007 International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops (ICPPW 2007), 2007
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