Computer organization and design (2nd ed.): the hardware/software interface
Computer organization and design (2nd ed.): the hardware/software interface
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Through evaluating a major FPGA manufacturer, the concept of utilizing the parallelism of FPGA technology for massively parallel processing is examined. Currently, FPGA's contain over a hundred thousands logic elements, an array of over 256 embedded memory banks and a complex interconnection network. This paper presents a detailed analysis of a particular FPGA device, available pre-device hardware blocks and shows how a massively parallel system can be constructed. Finally, a simple design illustrating the usage of FPGA resources, performance, and parallelism is presented.