Schedule

Processor + FPGA

These papers discuss systems where there is software working in conjunction with reconfigurable hardware.

Sept. 19

OneChip [1]

Sept. 24

No class

Oct. 1

• PRISM I [2]
• PRISM II [3, 4]
• VCC [5, 6]

Oct. 8

These papers are all from BYU.

• Nano Processor [7]
• DISC Processor [8, 9, 10]

Oct. 15

• PRISC [11]
• Limitations [12, 13, 14]

Oct. 22

• DeHon [15]
• Future directions [16]

FPGA Systems

These papers discuss systems where the computation is done primarily in reconfigurable hardware.

Oct. 29

• PAM, PeRLe [17]
• Splash 2 [18, 19]
• Spyder [20]

Nov. 5

• Marc-1 [21]
• CM-2X [22]
• Anyboard [23]

Nov. 12

• Teramac [24]
• MATRIX [25]
• Virtual Wires [26] - This is not a computing machine, but addresses an important issue about connectivity between FPGAs.
• The BRASS Project. The only information available can be found at 
  http://HTTP.CS.Berkeley.EDU/projects/brass/. This is a new project.

FPGA Architectures

An important element for reconfigurable computing is the FPGA logic itself. What makes a good FPGA for computing? These papers describe some FPGAs that have been targeted for reconfigurable computing.

Nov. 19

• PLASMA/Teramac [27]
• CAL/Xilinx 6200 [28, 29]
• Concurrent Logic [30]

Nov. 26

DPGA [31, 32, 33]

Software Systems

How do we program these things?

Dec. 3

• C++ [34]
• C++ [35]
• tmcc [36]
• lcc [37]