A Scalable GPU Architecture based on Dynamically Reconfigurable Embedded Processor
Won-Jong Lee, Sang-oak Woo, Kwon-Taek Kwon, Sungjin Son, Kyoung-June Min, Gyeong-Ja Jang, Choong-Hun Lee, Seokyoon Jung, Chan-Min Park, Shihwa Lee · 2005
The increasing cost of ASIC has been driving designers to choose more flexible solutions, as new chip architectures should be able to deliver high performance while maintaining low power consumption, area, and costs in shorter time-to-market environments. As a result, reconfigurable processors (RPs) have become increasingly important in recent years. In this work, we present a new approach that utilizes an RP to design a tile based GPU, a core component of today’s mobile application processors. Experimental results show that the use of RP based GPUs can be a versatile graphics solution, as they support scalable, flexible architecture models.