High-Performance Reconfigurable Fabric for Cognitive Information Processing

摘要

Cognitive systems have requirements that are not met by existing commercially available architectures such as multi-core microprocessors or reconfigurable logic. In collaboration with Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), this project had the goal of creating a hybrid architecture that combines an existing power efficient AFRL design with an asynchronous high performance reconfigurable fabric. A new reconfigurable fabric was created with a number of unique features, including support for low leakage operation via power gating, additional hardware support for dynamic reconfiguration, and features that enable virtualization of the configuration memory of the fabric. A chip was created in collaboration with AFRL that included an AFRL system design and the new asynchronous fabric and submitted for fabrication through the Trusted Foundry Access Program.