Plasma
- 1 January 1996
- conference paper
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Abstract
1.Abstract Prototypes are ,invaluable ,for studying ,special purpose parallel architectures and ,custom ,computing. This paper ,de- scribes a new FPGA, called Plasma— the heart of a configur- able,custom ,computing ,engine ,(Teramac) that can ,execute synchronous,logic designs up to one million gates at rates up to one megahertz. Plasma ,FPGA’s using 0.8 micron ,CMOS are packaged,in large ,multichip modules ,(MCMs). A large ,custom circuit may,be mapped,onto the hardware,in approximately two hours, without user intervention. Plasma introduces some inno- vative architecture concepts ,including ,hardware ,support ,for large multiported register files. Keywords: FPGA, custom computing, register filesKeywords
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