MOM-map-oriented machine-a partly custom-designed architecture compared to standard hardware

Abstract

The von Neumann principle has two bottlenecks: program accessing and data accessing. An innovative non-von Neumann principle eliminates one of them. Its new processor, the map-oriented machine (MOM), is compared with the von Neumann concept. The MOM is the key resource to a completely new philosophy of data processing, map-oriented processing. It does not use sequential programs since it has no program sequencer. For many applications it provides acceleration factors of up to several orders of magnitude, compared to von-Neumann-type processing. Existing computer application support tools (assemblers, compilers, operating systems, etc.) cannot be used for the MOM, since they produce sequential code. Thus, a new programming theory and new application support tools are introduced, so that MOM is based on a marriage between standard IC and application-specific IC techniques.<>