Very Large Scale Integrated Circuits for Military Systems.

Abstract

The integrated circuit (IC) technology which is to be developed under the ongoing Very-High-Speed Integrated Circuits (VHSIC) program will provide the IC physical characteristics which are necessary for important performance improvements and cost avoidance in many military systems. However, the full realization of the potential benefits of this technology demands new computer architectural concepts based upon new IC functional designs. For the more demanding applications the abandonment of the classical 'Von Neumann' computer organization (in which instructions and data are stored in the memory, fetched, and processed sequentially) is indicated in favor of processor organizations which permit high degrees of concurrency (parallelism and pipelining), local data storage, reconfigurable data paths (in order to minimize the number of memory fetches), etc. Data processors of this form will require new switching circuits and hardware macros (which perform specialized complex operations). This report reviews some of the available design options for circuits of this type.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA098176

Entities

People

  • Glenn W. Preston

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Arithmetic Units
  • Automatic Gain Control
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Computers
  • Data Storage Systems
  • Detection
  • Electronic Countermeasures
  • Electronic Intelligence
  • Image Processing
  • Integrated Circuits
  • Large Scale Integrated Circuits
  • Large Scale Integration
  • Metal Oxide Semiconductors
  • Shift Registers
  • Signal Processing

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Integrated Circuit Design and Technology.
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Systems Analysis and Design