The PIG paradigm: The design and use of a massively parallel fine grained self-reconfigurable infinitely scalable architecture

Proceedings of the 1st NASA/DoD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 175-180

  Macias, N J ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARDWARE; MAMMALS; NASA; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RECONFIGURABLE ARCHITECTURES; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

DESIGN AND OPERATIONS; MASSIVELY PARALLEL PROCESSING; MASSIVELY PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; MASSIVELY PARALLELS; RECONFIGURABLE SYSTEMS; SCALABLE ARCHITECTURES; SELF-RECONFIGURABLE; SELF-RECONFIGURABLE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER HARDWARE;

EID: 84901411201     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EH.1999.785450     Document Type: Conference Paper

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