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Exploring the VLSI Scalability of Stream Processors
Overview Stream processors are high-performance programmable processors optimized to run media applications. Recent work has shown these processors to be more area- and energy-efficient than conventional programmable architectures. This paper explores the scalability of stream architectures to future VLSI technologies where over a thousand floating-point units on a single chip will be feasible. Two techniques for increasing the number of ALUs in a stream processor are presented: intracluster and intercluster scaling. These scaling techniques are shown to be cost-efficient to tens of ALUs per cluster and to hundreds of arithmetic clusters.
| Publisher | Stanford University | File Format | |
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| Date Published | November 2002 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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