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Dataflow: Passing the Token - Computation Structures Group - MIT

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Dynamic <strong>Dataflow</strong> Architectures<br />

• Allocate instruction templates, i.e., a frame,<br />

dynamically to support each loop iteration<br />

and procedure call<br />

– termination detection needed to deallocate frames<br />

• The code can be shared if we separate <strong>the</strong><br />

code and <strong>the</strong> operand storage<br />

a token<br />

frame<br />

pointer<br />

<br />

instruction<br />

pointer<br />

ISCA, Madison, WI, June 6, 2005 Arvind - 14

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