A Recursive (VLSI) Computer Architecture

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Author(s)		Treleavan PC, Hopkins RP
Publication type		Report
Series Title		Computing Laboratory Technical Report Series
Year		1981
Date		March 1981
Report Number		161
Pages		18



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Here we propose a harmonious set of principles for the program and machine organisation of VLSI computers based on the concepts of hierarchy and recursion. We discuss these recursive architectural principles and illustrate their application by presenting a computational model and computer architecture. The computational model, called recursive control flow, represents a synthesis of the concepts underlying traditional control flow, data flow, string reduction and graph reduction models. The computer architecture is based on a simple building block - a computing element - for constructing a tightly-coupled decentralised computer. Each of these computing elements contains a memory, a processor and a communications capability allowing it to be interconnected with identical elements to form a larger computer, and to co-operate in the concurrent execution of a program.



Institution		Computing Laboratory, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Place Published		Newcastle upon Tyne
URL		http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/publications/trs/papers/161.pdf
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