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- From: mz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Mark Zwolinski)
- Newsgroups: comp.lsi.cad
- Subject: Re: What are Simulator/Hardware accelerators ?
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 13:23:08 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan18.013801.22802@netcom.com>, hage@netcom.com (Carl Hage) writes:
- >patel@key.amdahl.com (Chandresh Patel) writes:
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- [stuff deleted]
- >
- >There is now a third type of machine, such as produced by Quickturn and
- >PiE Design Systems, which convert a netlist into a set of partitioned FPGA
- >gate level circuits, then download the circuits into a set of Xilinx (or
- >equivalent) FPGAs mounted on boards with programmable and observable
- >interconnect. The FPGA circuit becomes a breadboard equivalent for
- >the actual hardware, and might run only a few times slower than the actual
- >hardware being simulated.
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- Do you (or indeed, anyone else) have any information on these systems? If
- so, please post or mail to me. Thanks
-
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- Dr Mark Zwolinski mz@ecs.soton.ac.uk
- Department of Electronics and Computer Science Tel. (0703) 593528
- University of Southampton Fax. (0703) 593045
- Southampton SO9 5NH, UK
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