Article T: integrated building blocks for parallel computing Share on Authors: G. M. Papadopoulos Lab for Comp. Sci., MIT 545 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA Lab for Comp. Sci., MIT 545 Technology Square, Cambridge, MAView Profile , G. A. Boughton Lab for Comp. Sci., MIT 545 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA Lab for Comp. Sci., MIT 545 Technology Square, Cambridge, MAView Profile , R. Greiner Motorola, Motorola, Inc., DW220, 2900 South Diablo Way, Tempe, AZ Motorola, Motorola, Inc., DW220, 2900 South Diablo Way, Tempe, AZView Profile , M. J. Beckerle Motorola, Motorola Cambridge Research Center, One Kendall Square, Bld 200, Cambridge, MA Motorola, Motorola Cambridge Research Center, One Kendall Square, Bld 200, Cambridge, MAView Profile Authors Info & Claims Supercomputing '93: Proceedings of the 1993 ACM/IEEE conference on SupercomputingDecember 1993 Pages 624–635https://doi.org/10.1145/169627.169811Online:01 December 1993Publication History 20citation170DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations20Total Downloads170Last 12 Months4Last 6 weeks2 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteGet Access

An aggressive, integrated hardware/software approach for the test and validation of Monsoon processing elements is developed. The strategy comprises three main elements: scan-paths of internal processor state, gate-level simulator of the entire processing element for hardware timing verification, and a novel table-driven instruction-level interpreter. Each of these elements is detailed, and it is shown how they contribute to design, test, validation, and debug.>

Monsoon is an experimental multi-threaded multiprocessor targeted to large-scale, general purpose scientific and symbolic computations. In particular, Monsoon is designed for the efficient execution of code compiled from Id, a high-level, implicitly parallel declarative language. Monsoon is a product of a multiyear cooperative research and development program between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Motorola, Inc., which, in turn is an outgrowth of over ten years of research in dynamic dataflow architectures and languages conducted at MIT. The intent is to provide an overall view of the Monsoon hardware and software system architecture. In addition, the run-time system and emulator are detailed.>