A High-Performance Reconfigurable Fabric for Cognitive Information Processing

Abstract

Cognitive systems have requirements that are not met by existing commercially available architectures such as multi-core microprocessors or reconfigurable logic. In collaboration with Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), this project had the goal of creating a hybrid architecture that combines an existing power efficient AFRL design with an asynchronous high performance reconfigurable fabric. A new reconfigurable fabric was created with a number of unique features, including support for low leakage operation via power gating, additional hardware support for dynamic reconfiguration, and features that enable virtualization of the configuration memory of the fabric. A chip was created in collaboration with AFRL that included an AFRL system design and the new asynchronous fabric and submitted for fabrication through the Trusted Foundry Access Program.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA534563

Entities

People

  • Rajit Manohar

Organizations

  • Cornell University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • C Programming Language
  • Computer Programming
  • Fabrication
  • Field Programmable Gate Arrays
  • High Level Languages
  • Information Processing
  • Integrated Circuits
  • Intellectual Property
  • Language
  • Metastable State
  • Microprocessors
  • Military Research
  • Programming Languages
  • Standards
  • Very Large Scale Integration

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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