Mopac: a partitionable and reconfigurable multicomputer array
Wong-Hua Lee, Miroslaw Malek · Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing · 1983
The design of a VLSI compatible, reconfigurable, partitionable multicomputer array is presented in this paper. The resources of the system can be divided into arbitrary size rectangular partitions, and various computational structures can be configured on each partition by distributed configuration process. A scheme to provide each partition with a private bus is introduced. This bus is essential for instruction broadcast and also augments the communication capability of each partition. Design of a special purpose hardware unit responsible for the process of partition allocation is described. This unit assures that the allocation process will not degrade the entire system performance. 7 references.