Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multidimensional processor architecture
- Patent Title (中): 多维处理器架构
-
Application No.: US12130861Application Date: 2008-05-30
-
Publication No.: US07831804B2Publication Date: 2010-11-09
- Inventor: Francesco Pappalardo , Giuseppe Notarangelo , Elio Guidetti
- Applicant: Francesco Pappalardo , Giuseppe Notarangelo , Elio Guidetti
- Applicant Address: IT Agrate Brianza (MI)
- Assignee: ST Microelectronics S.R.L.
- Current Assignee: ST Microelectronics S.R.L.
- Current Assignee Address: IT Agrate Brianza (MI)
- Agency: Hogan Lovells US LLP
- Priority: ITTO2004A0415 20040622
- Main IPC: G06F15/80
- IPC: G06F15/80

Abstract:
A processor architecture includes a number of processing elements for treating input signals. The architecture is organized according to a matrix including rows and columns, the columns of which each include at least one microprocessor block having a computational part and a set of associated processing elements that are able to receive the same input signals. The number of associated processing elements is selectively variable in the direction of the column so as to exploit the parallelism of said signals. Additionally the processor architecture of the present invention enable dynamic switching between instruction parallelism and data parallel processing typical of vectorial functionality. The architecture can be scaled in various dimensions in an optimal configuration for the algorithm to be executed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080294871A1 MULTIDIMENSIONAL PROCESSOR ARCHITECTURE Public/Granted day:2008-11-27
Information query