ISA - A New Parallel Architecture For Real-Time Robot Control And High-Speed Vision Systems

A new versatile programmable parallel VLSI architecture, called Instruction Systolic Arrays (ISA), is presented. The ISA retains all the advantages of conventional systolic arrays (such as regularity, modularity and parallelism at a fine level of granularity), but is also able to execute many different types of algorithms. The versatility of the ISA means that it can handle real-time variations in algorithmic calls and makes it suitable for use in adaptable real-time systems.