Bit-Serial Architectures For Parallel Arrays
Peter B. Denyer, Stewart G. Smith · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 1986
We review the use of bit-serial circuit techniques for parallel machine architectures. We identify the key concept of functional parallelism and present some examples of its application, including its use in the FIRST silicon compiler. We introduce a new com-parison of LSB-first and MSB-first serial techniques, and find that the latter approach may have distinct advantages for more complex arithmetic functions (like divide and square root), and for a general floating-point element. Finally, we review the serial programmable array processors and find significant future potential as a general computing substrate.