The power of reconfiguration

Y Ben-Asher, D Peleg, R Ramaswami… - Journal of parallel and …, 1991 - Elsevier
This paper examines the computational aspects of the reconfigurable network model. The
computational power of the model is investigated under several network topologies and with …

Constant time algorithms for the transitive closure and some related graph problems on processor arrays with reconfigurable bus systems

BF Wang, GH Chen - IEEE Transactions on Parallel & Distributed …, 1990 - computer.org
The transitive closure problem in O (1) time is solved by a new method that is far different
from the conventional solution method. On processor arrays with reconfigurable bus …

Efficient parallel convex hull algorithms

R Miller, QF Stout - IEEE transactions on Computers, 1988 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Parallel algorithms are presented to identify (ie detect and enumerate) the extreme points of
the convex hull of a set of planar points using a hypercube, pyramid, tree, mesh-of-trees …

The REFINE multiprocessor—theoretical properties and algorithms

SM Bhandarkar, HR Arabnia - Parallel Computing, 1995 - Elsevier
A reconfigurable interconnection network based on a multi-ring architecture called REFINE
is described. REFINE embeds a single 1-factor of the Boolean hypercube in any given …

Sorting n Numbers on n× n Reconfigurable Meshes with Buses

M Nigam, S Sahni - Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 1994 - Elsevier
We show how column sort and rotate sort can be implemented on the different
reconfigurable mesh with buses (RMB) architectures that have been proposed in the …

A reconfigurable architecture for image processing and computer vision

SM Bhandarkar, HR Arabnia… - International journal of …, 1995 - World Scientific
In this paper we describe a reconfigurable architecture for image processing and computer
vision based on a multi-ring network which we call a Reconfigurable Multi-Ring System …

A fast algorithm for computing a histogram on reconfigurable mesh

JW Jang, H Park, VK Prasanna - IEEE Transactions on Pattern …, 1995 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The reconfigurable mesh captures salient features from a variety of sources, including the
content addressable array parallel processor, the CHiP, the polymorphic-torus network and …

Reconfigurable SIMD massively parallel computers

H Li, QF Stout - Proceedings of the IEEE, 1991 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper is a brief introduction to a new class of computers, the reconfigurable massively
parallel computer. Its most distinguishing feature is the utilization of the reconfigurability of …

Fast computer vision algorithms for reconfigurable meshes

S Olariu, JL Schwing, Z Jingyuan - Image and Vision Computing, 1992 - Elsevier
A bus system that can change dynamically to suit computational needs is referred to as
reconfigurable. The purpose of this work is to show that a number of seemingly unrelated …

Reconfigurable mesh algorithms for the Hough transform

JF Jenq, S Sahni - Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 1994 - Elsevier
We develop parallel algorithms to compute the Hough transform on a reconfigurable mesh
with buses (RMESH) multiprocessor. The p angle Hough transform of an N× N image can be …