Design and Performance Evaluation of EXMAN: An EXtended MANchester Data Flow Computer

Patnaik, LM and Govindarajan, R and Ramadoss, NS (1986) Design and Performance Evaluation of EXMAN: An EXtended MANchester Data Flow Computer. In: IEEE Transactions on Computers, 35 (3). pp. 229-244.

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Abstract

Data flow computers are high-speed machines in which an instruction is executed as soon as all its operands are available. This paper describes the EXtended MANchester (EXMAN) data flow computer which incorporates three major extensions to the basic Manchester machine. As extensions we provide a multiple matching units scheme, an efficient, implementation of array data structure, and a facility to concurrently execute reentrant routines. A simulator for the EXMAN computer has been coded in the discrete event simulation language, SIMULA 67, on the DEC 1090 system. Performance analysis studies have been conducted on the simulated EXMAN computer to study the effectiveness of the proposed extensions. The performance experiments have been carried out using three sample problems: matrix multiplication, Bresenham's line drawing algorithm, and the polygon scan-conversion algorithm.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	IEEE Transactions on Computers
Publisher:	IEEE
Additional Information:	Copyright 1986 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE.
Keywords:	Computer graphics algorithms;data flow computers;discrete event simulation;Manchester data: flow computer; performance evaluation.
Department/Centre:	Division of Electrical Sciences > Computer Science & Automation
Date Deposited:	31 Aug 2009 13:33
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 05:43
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/22689

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