Plastic Cell Architecture: A Dynamically Reconfigurable Hardware-Based Computer
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This paper describes a dynamically reconfigurable hardware-based computer called the Plastic Cell Architecture (PCA). PCA consists of dualstructured sea-of -cells that consist of a built-in part and a plastic part. The built-in part forms ‘cellular automata’ while the plastic part looks like an SRAM-based FPGA. We detail the design flow especially how to implement logic onto the processing element. The advantages of PCA, considering VLSI implementation and several application examples, are also described.
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تاریخ انتشار 1999