Stigmergy is a form of indirect interaction for coordination and communication purposes that can be found in many swarm systems. In this paper we present a tiled coprocessor for computation-intensive applications that explicitly exploits stigmergy to achieve adaptability avoiding the usual time-consuming handshakes involved in direct interactions. This adaptability, without any centralized control, directly implies architectural scalability at design time, flexibility in multitasking environment, adaptive load balancing and fault-tolerance at run-time. A CMOS 0.13μm implementation of such architecture for simple array processing operations is presented and evaluated. Obtained results show the potentiality of the proposed approach

Cooperative VLSI Tiled Architectures: Stigmergy in a Swarm Coprocessor

ANGIUS, GIANMARCO;PANI, DANILO;RAFFO, LUIGI
2006-01-01

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Stigmergy is a form of indirect interaction for coordination and communication purposes that can be found in many swarm systems. In this paper we present a tiled coprocessor for computation-intensive applications that explicitly exploits stigmergy to achieve adaptability avoiding the usual time-consuming handshakes involved in direct interactions. This adaptability, without any centralized control, directly implies architectural scalability at design time, flexibility in multitasking environment, adaptive load balancing and fault-tolerance at run-time. A CMOS 0.13μm implementation of such architecture for simple array processing operations is presented and evaluated. Obtained results show the potentiality of the proposed approach
2006
978-354038482-3
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