The Reconfigurable Instruction Cell Array
Sami Khawam, Ioannis Nousias, Mark Milward, Yi Ying, Mark Muir, Tughrul Arslan · IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems · 2007
This paper presents a novel instruction cell-based reconfigurable computing architecture for low-power applications, thereafter referred to as the reconfigurable instruction cell array (RICA). For the development of the RICA, a top-down software driven approach was taken and revealed as one of the key design decisions for a flexible, easy to program, low-power architecture. These features make RICA an architecture that inherently solves the main design requirements of modern low-power devices. Results show that it delivers considerably less power consumption when compared to leading VLIW and low-power digital signal processors, but still maintaining their throughput performance.