A Dynamic Dataflow Architecture for Image Generation (NOT KNOWN IF PUBLISHED BECAUSE AUTHOR HAS LEFT AT&T)
1. Introduction: Dataflow architecture is an alternative to Von Neumann architecture and is capable of efficiently exploiting massive amount of parallelism inherent in many types of computation. A dynamic dataflow architecture uses tagged tokens to unfold iterative computations so that high degree of parallelism can be achieved[2][13][16]. This paper proposes a specialized dynamic dataflow architecture for the ray tracing image generation and investigates its performance for the task.