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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (820)	12/27/1999 10:09:00 AM
From: Harvey Allen	of 1782

Frank- I have the feeling that reconfigurable computing is the cold fusion of the computing world. Here is one reference to its impracticality: The "nirvana" of reconfigurable computing is a generic mass of in-system reprogrammable silicon which, based on the instructions and data flowing into it, would dynamically morph itself into whatever functions were required. This vision, although intriguing, has remained out of reach despite several decades' worth of academic research, and will probably continue to do so, at least for the foreseeable future. Aside from the logic and routing limitations of the silicon itself, as well as the mind-boggling power consumption that such an approach would create, reconfiguration speed itself is a shortcoming. Today, placing and routing a fixed netlist into a FPGA takes numerous hours for even moderately-sized designs, and on a high-powered workstation. What's the point of dynamically reconfigurable logic that requires a supercomputer-like microprocessor and memory array sitting next to it just to handle the reconfiguration? ednmag.com My question is whether switching is a simpler task than general computing and more likely for success. Harvey

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