Parallel RISC Architecture. A Functional Approach Based on Backus's FP language

摘要

The main consequence of building ad hoc structured hardware for parallel computation is the huge difficulty we have to program it. The paper discusses a new framework introducing the concept of parallel RISC engine, as a simple and efficient solution for executing FP like languages proposed by John Backus [2] as an alternative to the von Neumann style of performing computation. A first version for the hardware solution is already implemented in silicon [12].