Dynamically Reconfigurable SIMD Architecture

Summary

A new SIMD architecture for vision chips has been designed, which features the function of clustering multiple PEs and that enables the hardware to be dynamically reconfigurable. This architecture performs non-local operations efficiently, which conventional SIMD processors are not good at.

Fig.1 Architecture


Fig.2 clustering multiple PEs


Fig.3 operation example of clustered PEs (summation)

Reference

1. Takashi Komuro, Shingo Kagami, Masatoshi Ishikawa: A Dynamically Reconfigurable SIMD Processor for a Vision Chip, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 265-268 (2004) [PDF]