Wafer-scale integration of systolic arrays
Frank Thomson Leighton, Charles E. Leiserson · 1982
This paper describes and analyzes several algorithms for constructing systolic array networks from cells on a silicon wafer. Some of the cells may be defective, and thus the networks must be configured to avoid them. We adopt a probabilistic model of cell failure, and attempt to construct networks whose maximum wire length is minimal Although the algorithms presented are designed principally for application to the wafer-scale integration of one and two-dimensional systolic arrays, they can also be used to construct networks in well studied models of geometric complexity. Some of the algorithms are of considerable practical interest.