Dynamically Programmable Parallel Processor (DPPP): A Novel Reconfigurable Architecture with Simple Program Interface

摘要

Routing flexibility is often the dominant issue in many reconfigurable devices, especially devices with fine granularity such as FPGA. This paper describes a new architecture-based reconfigurable device, Dynamically Programmable Parallel Processor (DPPP) which utilises a multiple access bus. DPPP is designed to provide 100% routing flexibility and to achieve high parallelism. DPPP also features its programmability as it can be simply compiled by using numerical formulas as input. A prototype chip based on the proposed architecture had been implemented into a 4.5mm x 4.5mm chip with 0.6μm CMOS process.