Plastic Cell Architecture: A Scalable Device Architecture for General-Purpose Reconfigurable Computing
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We propose an architectural reference of programmable devices that we call Plastic Cell Architecture (PCA). PCA is a reference for implementing a device with autonomous reconfigurability, which we also introduce in this paper. This reconfigurability is a further step toward new reconfigurable computing, which introduces variable- and programmable-grained parallelism to wired logic computing. This computing follows the Object-Oriented paradigm: it regards configured circuits as objects. These objects will be described in a new hardware description language dealing with the semantics of dynamic module instantiation. PCA is the fusion of SRAM-based FPGAs and cellular automata (CA), where the CA are dedicated to support run time activities of objects. This paper mainly focus on autonomous reconfigurability and PCA. The following discussions examine a research direction towards general-purpose reconfigurable computing.
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Kouichi NAGAMI, Kiyoshi OGURI, Tsunemichi SHIOZAWA, Hideyuki ITO, Ryusuke KONISHI, "Plastic Cell Architecture: A Scalable Device Architecture for General-Purpose Reconfigurable Computing" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics,
vol. E81-C, no. 9, pp. 1431-1437, September 1998, doi: .
Abstract: We propose an architectural reference of programmable devices that we call Plastic Cell Architecture (PCA). PCA is a reference for implementing a device with autonomous reconfigurability, which we also introduce in this paper. This reconfigurability is a further step toward new reconfigurable computing, which introduces variable- and programmable-grained parallelism to wired logic computing. This computing follows the Object-Oriented paradigm: it regards configured circuits as objects. These objects will be described in a new hardware description language dealing with the semantics of dynamic module instantiation. PCA is the fusion of SRAM-based FPGAs and cellular automata (CA), where the CA are dedicated to support run time activities of objects. This paper mainly focus on autonomous reconfigurability and PCA. The following discussions examine a research direction towards general-purpose reconfigurable computing.
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