Serial-Data Computation

This book is concerned with advances in serial—data computational architectures, and the CAD tools for their implementation in silicon. The bit—serial tradition at Edinburgh University (EU) stretches back some 6 years to the conception of the FIRST silicon compiler. FIRST owes much of its inspiration to Dick Lyon, then at Xerox P ARC, who proposed a 'structured—design' methodology for construction of signal processing systems from bit—serial building blocks. Based on an nMOS cell—library, F...