Teramac-configurable custom computing

  • Authors:
  • R. Amerson;R. J. Carter;W. B. Culbertson;P. Kuekes;G. Snider

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • FCCM '95 Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on FPGA's for Custom Computing Machines
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

Abstract: The Teramac configurable hardware system can execute synchronous logic designs of up to one million gates at rates up to 1 megahertz. A fully configured Teramac includes half a gigabyte of RAM and hardware support for large multiported register files. The system has been built from custom FPGA's packaged in large multichip modules (MCMs). A large custom circuit (/spl sim/1,000,000 gates) may be compiled onto the hardware in approximately 2 hours, without user intervention. The system is being used to explore the potential of custom computing machinery (CCM).