Derivation of a Process Network for the Jacobium Processor

Application domain specific processors are becoming more and more appealing because of their peculiar feature of flexibility in terms of number of algorithms which one single architecture can execute and also in terms of the possible computational improvement due to the increase of parallelism. The specific domain chosen is the family of Jacobi algorithms which are often used in the field of adaptive beam-forming of radar signals. The architecture chosen should be weakly programmable. The idea is to derive in a systematic way a control program that is downloaded on a simulator of the processor to obtain quantitative information about the performance on the execution of the application domain. Moreover, some techniques to enhance, from a qualitative point of view, the parallelism are applied, suggested by the particular structure of the Jacobi algorithms.