On Jan 8, 2011, at 9:01 AM, M.L. wrote:

> It doesn't seem logical to fit any meaningfully useful number of
> soft-cores on a single FPGA.

The article has the marks of one of those "stories" where what the =20
researchers think they accomplished and what ends up in the press are =20
pretty far apart.

=93This is very early proof-of-concept work where we=92re trying to =20
demonstrate a convenient way to program FPGAs so that their potential =20
to provide very fast processing power could be used much more widely =20
in future computing and electronics."

This article in eetimes is a bit more enlightening:
http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4211856/1-000-processors-on-a-Xilin=
x-FPGA
Note the reference to reconfigurable computing; I think this has more =20
to do with creating a 1000-core specialized-algorithm device "on the =20
fly" than implementing a general purpose 1000-core CPU.

BillW


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