1. ESE 566: Hardware/Software Co-Design of Embedded Systems Fall 2005  Instructor: Dr. Alex Doboli.
Paper discussed in class: H. Singh, M.-H. Lee, G. Lu, F. J. Kurdahi, N. Bagherzadeh, E. M. Chaves Filho, “MorphoSys: An Integrated Reconfigurable System for Data-Parallel and Computation-Intensive Applications”, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 49, No. 5, May 2000, pp

2. Brief description of the paper content
Briefly, what is the paper discussing?
What is the motivation for this work?
Describe the structure of the MorphoSys architecture

3. Taxonomy for Reconfigurable Systems
What paradigm is MorphoSys proposing? How is this similar/different from the ideas in Pleiades?
What criteria are used to analyze a reconfigurable system? Discuss these criteria (granularity/depth of programmability/reconfigurability/interface/computation models).

4. Taxonomy for Reconfigurable Systems
Discuss Table I and Table II.
Explain the differences between SIMD array processors and SIMD-based reconfigurable systems.

5. MorphoSys Architecture
Discuss the Reconfigurable Cell Array (Figure 3). Structure. Reconfiguration modes. What is the correlation between application domain and this structure?
What activities does the programmable processor perform?

6. MorphoSys Architecture
Frame Buffer
What specific instructions were introduced for the programmable processor?

7. MorphoSys Architecture
Discuss the instructions in Table 3. What is overlap of computation and data transfers? What are its merits? Limitations?
What is the operation mode? What parallel operation do take place during operation?

8. Design of Components
What is the structure of an Reconfigurable Cell (Figure 5)?
Context Register. Discuss Figure 6.
Context Memory Organization. Context Broadcast. Dynamic Reconfiguration. Selective Context Enabling.

9. Design of Components
Interconnect network. What hierarchical levels are there in the network?
Summarize the architectural features of MorphoSys. Compare with Pleiades. Discuss advantages and limitations.