The Exploitation Of Global Operations In Affine Space-time Mapping

Abstract

In traditional array synthesis methods, a linear or affine space-time mapping is applied on a regular application description to design a regular array architecture. If a high level application description is used, regularisation and localisation techniques must be applied to obtain a lower level format suited for transformational design methods. In this paper, it will be shown how characteristics of a high level description with global operations as and n and broadcast signals, can be exploited in the mapping process to obtain more efficient architectures for regular real-time signal processing applications.