Vector processor with a memory assigned with skewed addresses adapted

Abstract

A plurality of storage control units are employed in the storage control unit section; moreover, two requester modules are adopted in association with these storage control units. Each memory module is constituted with as many access bank groups as there are storage control units. The access bank groups operate in concurrent fashion and are accessible from any one of the storage control units. In the element assignment, a plurality of request control units in each requester module and a plurality of vector data controllers in each vector register unit are respectively assigned with serial numbers beginning from zero. For a vector data controller, a number assigned thereto is divided by the request module count to attain a remainder such that the vector data controller is assigned to a request module having a number identical to the value of the remainder. Furthermore, a request queue is disposed at a stage preceding each priority unit and a request send-out unit is arranged to store therein a state of the request queue and to control a request transmission from each request control unit. Addresses are assigned to the respective memory modules, bank groups, and banks according to skew schemes respectively suitable therefor.