Reconfigurable
Reconfigurable Pleiades : A cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus, six of which are readily visible and represent the daughters of Atlas, the seventh being 'lost'.
The Pleiades project at UC Berkeley seeks to achieve ultra-low power high-performance multimedia computing through the reconfiguration of heterogeneous system modules. Achieving high-energy efficiency requires the elimination of the waste that typically dominates the energy consumption in general-purpose programmable engines. Providing programmability at just the right granularity (instruction, functional module, data path or gate) makes it possible to eliminate virtually all overhead, while making it further possible to exploit other energy reducing techniques, such as parallellism, pipelining and dynamic voltage scaling.
This
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presents a global view on the Pleiades vision.
Pleiades is funded by DARPA under the Adaptive Computing Systems project . Industrial sponsors are National, Motorola, Rockwell, Cadence, Sony and Sharp.
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