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5.0 PHYSICAL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SUPERCISC RHF
The design of the SuperCISC reconfigurable hardware fabric can be divided into a number of
modules such as the design of the ALU Stripe, MUX Stripe, FINALMUX Stripe and the design
of the BIGFABRIC. The sections below describe the various implementation details of the
SuperCISC RHF.
5.1 DESIGN OF THE ALU STRIPE
In a homogeneous ALU configuration, the ALU stripe has multiple identical ALUs in the same
stripe. A 20X18 configuration has 20 ALUS in a row whereas a 13X18 configuration has 13
ALUs in a row. The fundamental component of the ALU stripe is the ALU Module.
5.1.1 ALU Module Specifications
The ALU Module specifications were derived from a place and route of the ALU module which
showed a high routing density and standard cell area utilization. Table 5-1 shows some important
specifications of the ALU Module. Figure 5-1 shows the placed and routed ALU Module
implemented in the IBM 0.13um CMOS process.
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