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Systolic Arrays

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This chapter reviews the basic ideas of systolic array, its design methodologies, and historical development of various hardware implementations. Two modern applications, namely, motion estimation of video coding and wireless communication baseband processing are also discussed.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706-1691, USA

    Yu Hen Hu

  2. Department of Electrical Engineer, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA

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Hu, Y.H., Kung, SY. (2013). Systolic Arrays. In: Bhattacharyya, S., Deprettere, E., Leupers, R., Takala, J. (eds) Handbook of Signal Processing Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6859-2_34

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