A Move processor for bio-inspired systems

The structure and operation of multi-cellular organisms relies, among other things, on the specialization of the cells' physical structure to a finite set of specific operations. If we wish to make the analogy between a biological cell and a digital processor, we should note that nature's approach to parallel processing is subtly different from conventional von Neumann architectures or even from conventional parallel processing approaches, where specialization is obtained by adapting software to a fixed hardware structure. In this article we present the outline of a novel processor architecture based on the Move or TTA (Transport-Triggered Architecture) approach. The features of such architectures allow them to implement systems that more closely resemble, within the limitations imposed by the capabilities of conventional silicon, the general modus operandi of multi-cellular organisms.