The Plastic Cell Architecture for dynamic reconfigurable computing

Abstract

The authors explain the dynamic manipulation of the object as an essential function which a general purpose computer should have. Introducing this property, they propose a general purpose reconfigurable computer architecture to obtain both performance of the wired logic and generality of the program logic. Since the proposing reconfigurable logic device is a mesh structure of the cell of high plasticity, they name it Plastic Cell Architecture (PCA). Each cell has a dual structure consisting of the built-in part and the plastic part. The plastic part performs as a logic element which constructs the wired logic. And the built-in part takes charge of the reconfiguration. They describe the structure of the cell and the necessary function for the built-in part.