Article: Hardware goes soft.(use of reconfigurable technology in microprocessors)

Article: Reconfigurable chips make a comeback: rewire it ...
Electronic Business;  August 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Concepts, Tempe, AZ. Still, reconfigurable chips represent an attempt to combine ... Unlike PLDs, QuickSilver's reconfigurable chips can be reprogrammed every few nanoseconds ... more work than expected to bring reconfigurable chips to market. The three-year chip ...

Article: Silicon Graphics teams with Celoxica to accelerate ...
M2 Presswire;  June 20, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... processing capabilities of FPGA without going through hardware ... computing systems which use FPGA technology in a co-processor model. Reconfigurable chips can be programmed by a customer ... to name a few. Previous FPGA-based acceleration systems ...

Article: Silicon Graphics Teams With Celoxica to Accelerate ...
Business Wire;  June 20, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... processing capabilities of FPGA without going through hardware ... computing systems which use FPGA technology in a co-processor model. Reconfigurable chips can be programmed by a customer ... to name a few. Previous FPGA-based acceleration systems ...

Article: FPGA challenges: pinning down FPGA/PCB ...
Printed Circuit Design & Fab;  November 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... increases, the challenge of implementing an FPGA on a printed circuit board (PCB) has ... such as DDR3, further complicates the FPGA/PCB integration. Traditional pin swapping ... not practical as the swappability of an FPGA is both device- and application-dependant ...

Article: FPGA-prototyping and ASIC-conversion considerations.
EDN;  October 11, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Kirk, AMI Semiconductor Converting your FPGA to an ASIC yields many benefits. Here ... ASIC device. Still, designing with an FPGA makes more sense, and, by paying attention ... system designer. The drive to ever-higher FPGA logic densities and speeds has pushed FPGAs ...

Article: FPGA-prototyping and ASIC conversion considerations: ...
EDN Asia;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... ASIC device. Still, designing with an FPGA makes more sense, and, by paying attention ... system designer. The drive to ever-higher FPGA logic densities and speeds has pushed FPGAs ... at lower and lower voltages. The latest FPGA devices fabricated in 65nm technology have ...

Article: Synopsys' FPGA Compiler II and FPGA Express Version ...
Business Wire;  September 20, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 20, 1999-- FPGA Compiler II leads the industry with FPGA Retiming and Pipelining Synopsys Inc. (NASDAQ ... leader for complex IC design, today announced FPGA Compiler II(TM) and FPGA Express(TM) version ...