Reliable Reconfigurable Structures for Array Architectures
Report ID: TR-315-91Author: Steiglitz, Kenneth / Sha, Edwin Hsing-Mean
Date: 1991-04-00
Pages: 17
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Abstract:
This paper describes some explicit constructions for reconfigurable array architectures. Given a working architecture (application graph), we add redundant hardware to increase reliability. The degree of reconfigurability, D R, of a redundant graph is a measure of the cost of reconfiguration after failures. When DR is independent of the size of the application graph, we say the graph is finitely reconfigurable, F R. We present a class of simple layered graphs with a logarithmic number of redundant edges, which can maintain both finite reconfigurability and a fixed level of reliability for a wide class of application graphs. By sacrificing finite reconfigurability, we show that by using expanders we can construct highly reliable structures with the asymptotically optimal number of edges for one-dimensional and tree-like array architectures.