Key Features
AsAP uses several novel key features, of which four are:
- Chip multi-processor (CMP) architecture designed to achieve high performance and low power for many DSP applications.
- Small memories and a simple architecture in each processor to achieve high energy efficiency.
- Globally asynchronous locally synchronous (GALS) clocking simplifies the clock design, greatly increases ease of scalability, and can be used to further reduce power dissipation.
- Inter-processor communication is performed by a nearest neighbor network to avoid long global wires and increase scalability to large arrays and in advanced fabrication technologies. Each processor can receive data from any two neighbors and send data to any combination of its four neighbors.
Read more about this topic: Asynchronous Array Of Simple Processors
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