Communication and Memory Architecture Design of Application-Specific High-End Multiprocessors

Table 2

Characterization results for CNP and VNP processors using TSMC 90 nm LPHP standard cell library.

Processor type	Parameters	Microarchitecture parallelism
		1	2	4	8
CNP	Area (mm^2)	0.002759	0.003933	0.005998	0.008709
	Delay (ns)	0.751	1.413	2.105	2.709
	Clock cycles	8	4	2	1
VNP	Area (mm^2)	0.003290	0.005089	0.011673	—
	Delay (ns)	0.847	0.921	1.366	—
	Clock cycles	4	2	1	—