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Massachusetts Institute of Technology \\
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science\\[\bigskipamount]
Proposal for Thesis Research in Partial Fulfillment\\
of the Requirements for the Degree of\\
Doctor of Philosophy
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Title: Abacus: A Reconfigurable Bit-Parallel SIMD Architecture

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Submitted by:   & Michael Bolotski       & \brule{2.5in} \\
                & 38 Marion St.     & (Signature of author) \\
                & Somerville, MA 02143
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Date of submission: May 1996

Expected Date of Completion: August 1996

Laboratory where thesis will be done: Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Brief Statement of the Problem:

Reconfiguration is the ability to dynamically configure memory
organization, ALU width, or communication network topology to match the
needs of the computational problem.  Parallel computers based on
reconfigurable bit-slice architectures can be an order of magnitude faster
on important applications than those based on conventional architectures.
This dissertation will validate the thesis with an implementation-based
approach.


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