ワダ　ヤスタカ   WADA Yasutaka   和田　康孝    所属   情報学部 情報学科    データサイエンス学環    職種   教授
言語種別	英語
発行・発表の年月	2011/04
形態種別	学術雑誌
査読	査読あり
標題	A 45-nm 37.3 GOPS/W Heterogeneous Multi-Core SOC with 16/32 Bit Instruction-Set General-Purpose Core
執筆形態	共著
掲載誌名	IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
巻・号・頁	E94-C(4),pp.663-669
著者・共著者	Osamu NISHII, Yoichi YUYAMA, Masayuki ITO, Yoshikazu KIYOSHIGE, Yusuke NITTA, Makoto ISHIKAWA, Tetsuya YAMADA, Junichi MIYAKOSHI, Yasutaka WADA, Keiji KIMURA, Hironori KASAHARA, and Hideo MAEJIMA
概要	We built a 12.4mm × 12.4mm, 45-nm CMOS, chip that integrates eight 648-MHz general purpose cores, two matrix processor (MX-2) cores, four flexible engine (FE) cores and media IP (VPU5) to establish heterogeneous multi-core chip architecture. The general purpose core had its IPC (instructions per cycle) performance enhanced by adding 32-bit instructions to the existing 16-bit fixed-length instruction set and executing up to two 32-bit instructions per cycle. Considering these five-to-seven years of embedded LSI and increasing trend of access-master within LSI, we predict that the memory usage of single core will not exceed 32-bit physical area (i.e. 4GB), but chip-total memory usage will exceed 4GB. Based on this prediction, the physical address was expanded from 32-bit to 40-bit. The fabricated chip was tested and a parallel operation of eight general purpose cores and four FE cores and eight data transfer units (DTU) is obtained on AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) encode processing.
DOI	10.1587/transele.E94.C.663
ISSN	0916-8516