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For anyone interested in FPGA-based computing, platforms, applications, tools, research, products, and related issues

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Tuesday, 11 August 2009

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Tom VanCourt

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Clive Maxfield, 2009-12-14 10:32:56

Is the time-to-program the main hurdle/challenge in the field of RC?

Jaime Cummins, 2009-10-21 10:16:28

So - being a blank wall will start with something that will be controversial. Until reconfigurable computing stops being about using FPGAs to attempt to do computing, there can not be an effective reconfigurable solution. It is similar to using a hammer as a screwdriver. It works (sort of), but it is not what you want to use, and if you try it once, you never do it again.

So what do you really need? As with all new types of computing you need 3 pieces. You have to start with a need. Why do something different then we have been doing? If this is compelling then you can move to the second, what is the new hardware/IC that is required and how do you make it? But the third is the hardest part, where are the software tools that let me use this technology with some ease, and that accelerate my ability to design, implement, test, and deploy the complete solution.

I would argue that 1, and 2 above have been done over and over again. But that the software tools, the design flow, and making this accesible has been the elusive piece. Why one would ask? Well as with most such questions it is because this has been perceived mostly as a hardware problem, and new companies new teams have all been built around hardware. The software tools, making real world OS environments (like Linux an easy one), software libraries and more have always been the after thought. Therefore the new technology has stalled due to lack of access (most engineers are too busy to really learn complex new things, and management aversion to being the first).

So how do we move ahead? I leave this to the next wall scribbler. Next time will talk about what I feel this new form of computing is really about, and why we need to abandon the term reconfigurable computing.