January 24, 2005

Week 4: Pilchard Board and Finite State Machines

This week we will discuss the Pilchard board and finite state machines. There is a paper about Pilchard here.

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January 17, 2005

Week 3: ASICs vs FPGAs and The density advantage of FPGAs

We will finish discussing the Virtex II architecture and then talk about ASICs vs FPGAs

We will also talk about the Density Advantage of FPGAs (refers to this paper)

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January 10, 2005

Week 2: Xilinx Virtex Architecture

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You may also wish to refer to the Virtex-E datasheet and the
Product Selection Guide
at Xilinx's site.

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Week 1: Introduction

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Also read
Compton and Hauck, "Reconfigurable Computing: A Survey of Systems and Software," and Vuillemin et. al., "Programmable active memories: reconfigurable systems come of age"


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