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Plasma: An FPGA for Million Gate Systems
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Conference
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Fourth International ACM Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays Field-Programmable Gate Arrays, 1996. FPGA '96. Proceedings of the 1996 ACM Fourth International Symposium on. :10-16 1996
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Prototypes are invaluable for studying special purpose parallel architectures and custom computing. This paper describes a new FPGA, called Plasma- the heart of a configurable custom computing engine (Teramac) that can execute synchronous logic designs up to one million gates at rates up to one megahertz. Plasma FPGA's using 0.8 micron CMOS are packaged in large multichip modules (MCMs). A large custom circuit may be mapped onto the hardware in approximately two hours, without user intervention. Plasma introduces some innovative architecture concepts including hardware support for large multiported register files.