Design of control logics based on hand-shaking communication channels on plastic cell architecture

摘要

Plastic Cell Architecture (PCA) is proposed as a computing architecture based on flexible reconfiguration of hardware. We propose a prototype device named PCA-Chip2 and a design Automation environment for the device. In this paper. a model and basic circuits for dataflow control logic such as branch or loop are proposed. The model is based on data-driven control utilizing hand-shake and pipeline mechanism of communication channels of the PCA device. Conditional branch units selectors, duplicators, terminators for the model are designed as basic circuits.