A Reconfigurable Functional Unit for an Adaptive Dynamic Extensible Processor

This paper presents a reconfigurable functional unit (RFU) for an adaptive dynamic extensible processor. The processor can tune its extended instructions to the target applications, after chip-fabrication. The custom instructions (CIs) are generated deploying the hot basic blocks during the training mode. In the normal mode, CIs are executed on the RFU. A quantitative approach was used for designing the RFU. The RFU is a matrix of functional units with 8

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: FPL
• Authors: Hamid Noori, Farhad Mehdipour, Kazuaki Murakami, Koji Inoue, Morteza Saheb Zamani
• Keywords: Dynamic Extensible Processor, FPL 2006, Functional Units, Hardware, Reconfigurable Functional Unit