CMA-Cube: A scalable reconfigurable accelerator with 3-D wireless inductive coupling interconnect

Yusuke Koizumi, Eiichi Sasaki, Hideharu Amano, Hiroki Matsutani, Yasuhiro Take, Tadahiro Kuroda, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Mitaro Namiki, Kimiyoshi Usami, Masaaki Kondo, Hiroshi Nakamura

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Abstract

CMA-Cube is the second prototype of building block scalable reconfigurable accelerator using inductive coupling interconnect. It uses the wireless inductive coupling interconnect as a packet switching network which connects accelerators. As an accelerator core, CMA (Cool Mega Array), which consists of a large coarse-grained PE array with combinatorial circuits and tiny micro-controller, is applied. Evaluation results of Cube-1 Quad Core which consists of a host embedded CPU and three CMA-Cubes achieved 3.15 times performance acceleration as that without accelerators when JPEG decoder is executed.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 22nd International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, FPL 2012
Pages543-546
Number of pages4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012 Dec 12
Event22nd International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, FPL 2012 - Oslo, Norway
Duration: 2012 Aug 292012 Aug 31

Publication series

NameProceedings - 22nd International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, FPL 2012

Conference

Conference22nd International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, FPL 2012
Country/TerritoryNorway
CityOslo
Period12/8/2912/8/31

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science Applications

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