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2000 IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines
Reconfigurable Array Media Processor (RAMP)
Napa, California
April 17-April 19
ISBN: 0-7695-0871-5
Kamlesh Rath, University of Texas at Dallas
Sirisha Tangirala, University of Texas at Dallas
Patrick Friel, University of Texas at Dallas
Poras Balsara, University of Texas at Dallas
Jose Flores, Texas Instruments
John Wadley, Texas Instruments
This paper presents the architecture of a Reconfigurable Array Media Processor (RAMP). RAMP features a 2-D array of coarse-grained configurable logic blocks (CLBs) connected together by local and global inter-connects. The CLBs on RAMP provide a 4-bit ALU, 2x2 bit parallel multiply function, 4-bit barrel-shifter, two 4-bit registers and a local programmable control unit. RAMP is capable of partial run-time reconfiguration and supports block-mode reconfiguration.The novel features of this device include two programmable high-speed clocks available to each CLB, scalable parallel multiplier, and on-chip memory/registers. RAMP can be used to implement high-performance computational kernels of video, audio and signal processing functions. Matrix multiplication, FIR filters and Inverse DCT functions are used as examples to demonstrate the capabilities of the RAMP architecture.
Citation:
Kamlesh Rath, Sirisha Tangirala, Patrick Friel, Poras Balsara, Jose Flores, John Wadley, "Reconfigurable Array Media Processor (RAMP)," fccm, pp.287, 2000 IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, 2000
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