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A systematic methodology to synthesize systolic designs is described and used to derive a new design for dynamic programming. This latter design uses fewer processing elements than previously considered ones. The synthesis method consists of two parts: 1) deriving from the high-level problem specification a form more suitable to VLSI implementation; 2) mapping the new specification into physical hardware. The method also provides a unifying framework for existing systolic algorithms.
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Guerra, C. (1986). A unifying framework for systolic designs. In: Makedon, F., Mehlhorn, K., Papatheodorou, T., Spirakis, P. (eds) VLSI Algorithms and Architectures. AWOC 1986. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 227. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-16766-8_5
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