Numerical analysis for factorial data analysis. Part II: Special purpose hardware—the programmable systolic array SARDA

The second part of this paper deals with the systolic implementation of the computational kernel for factorial data analysis, defined in Part I, on special-purpose hardware. The framework of the study is that a sequence of different algorithms has to be performed on a unique hardware array. This fact has led us to the design of the programmable systolic array SARDA: this is a triangular array which consists of programmable nodes with local memory and programmable orthogonal connections.