ASYNCHRONOUS PROCESSOR NETWORK - THE PROJECT OF THE POLYTECHNIC-INSTITUTE-OF-GRENOBLE

From 1985 to 1991, a massively parallel architecture has been develope d in the Asynchronous Processor Network project (APN). Organized as a 2-D network, cells were designed as a trade-off between complexity and computing performances. Based on a 0.8 mu m CMOS technology, a circui t prototype was realized including 64 cells. During the development of the cellular machine, several novel aspects were considered as the si mplicity of cells architecture and a complete test and fault-tolerance strategy.