Garp: a MIPS processor with a reconfigurable coprocessor

  • Authors:
  • J. R. Hauser;J. Wawrzynek

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • FCCM '97 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE Symposium on FPGA-Based Custom Computing Machines
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

Typical reconfigurable machines exhibit shortcomings that make them less than ideal for general-purpose computing. The Garp Architecture combines reconfigurable hardware with a standard MIPS processor on the same die to retain the better features of both. Novel aspects of the architecture are presented, as well as a prototype software environment and preliminary performance results. Compared to an UltraSPARC, a Garp of similar technology could achieve speedups ranging from a factor of 2 to as high as a factor of 24 for some useful applications.