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Reconfigurable Computing FPGAs GigaOps
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DATE: june 1995
TITLE: Reconfigurable Computing Using FPGAs



Reconfigurable Computing Using FPGAs

(Contributed by Brad Taylor of Giga Ops)

The Spectrum Reconfigurable Computing Platform uses Xilinx Field Programmable
Gate Arrays (FPGAs) as computing elements and for I/O control of memories, busses, and
peripherals. The Spectrum software and hardware architecture 
is open, modular, scalable, and reprogrammable. 
These systems can be reconfigured in less than 20ms to execute different algorithms. 
Typical customers need 2,000 to 32,000 MIPS performance at 17 MHz to 80 MHz data rates
and have price, performance, footprint, and futures requirements which 
are not met by single or multiple ASICs, CPUs, or DSPs. 
Applications include machine vision, video editing, medical image processing, pre-press, 
visualization applications, telecommunications, neural networks, etc. 

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