FlexCore: Implementing an exposed datapath processor

M Själander, P Larsson-Edefors - … International Conference on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
2013 International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems …, 2013ieeexplore.ieee.org
The FlexCore processor is the resulting implementation of an exposed datapath approach
conceptualized in the FlexSoC programme. By way of a crossbar switch interconnect, all
execution units in a FlexCore datapath can potentially communicate, allowing the inherent
hardware parallelism to be utilized. This interconnect enables configuration of a datapath to
match an application domain, for example, by way of datapath accelerators. The baseline
FlexCore is a general-purpose processor (GPP) and since all FlexCore configurations are …
The FlexCore processor is the resulting implementation of an exposed datapath approach conceptualized in the FlexSoC programme. By way of a crossbar switch interconnect, all execution units in a FlexCore datapath can potentially communicate, allowing the inherent hardware parallelism to be utilized. This interconnect enables configuration of a datapath to match an application domain, for example, by way of datapath accelerators. The baseline FlexCore is a general-purpose processor (GPP) and since all FlexCore configurations are extensions to the baseline, they offer GPP functionality as complement to the domain-specific functionality. This paper gives an overview of the implementation of complete FlexCore processors, accompanied with discussions on datapath interconnects, datapath extensions and instruction decompression.
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